{"id":48324,"date":"2017-04-04T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T06:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/?p=48324"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:44:59","slug":"cluster-in-a-box-setups-with-open-e-joviandss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/cluster-in-a-box-setups-with-open-e-joviandss\/","title":{"rendered":"Cluster-in-a-Box setups with Open-E JovianDSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOpen-E JovianDSS provides unlimited options to architect HA storage environments with SMB\/CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols, and\u00a0is the answer to almost any storage requirement, either as a single node, a virtualized HA setup or a Big Data cluster environment. The software is also highly flexible, which means it can be used in various cluster setups. In this article, we&#8217;d like to show you one of the many possible HA setups: a Cluster-in-a-Box.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/solutions\/article\/high-availability-storage-cluster-in-a-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cluster-in-a-Box<\/a> system holds two servers and a common set of direct attached hard drives within one server enclosure. Since all necessary connections are pre-configured between the internal components, the system simplifies the physical setup and deployment of a two-node High Availability storage cluster. In order to avoid Single Points of Failure (SPOF) all system components (e.g. power supplies, fans, etc.) are redundant . The SAS hard drives, shared with both cluster nodes, are configured as a mirror (RAID 1) or as a RAID-Z so as to achieve additional redundancy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48355 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/770x481_blog_v2_new.png\" alt=\"Cluster-in-a-Box\" width=\"731\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"span7\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/products\/jovian-data-storage-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open-E JovianDSS<\/a> guarantees that both servers are utilized to the maximum, and at the same time it and enables load balance on both nodes. It is a compact and complete cluster solution that can be installed in a standard rack, which takes significantly less space than a standard multi-server solution. Of course, the system can be easily scaled up in future setups by adding external JBODs, if needed. All in all, in case a node failure appears, the other node repossesses all resources during failover and serves the nodes constantly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Examples for Cluster-in-a-Box setups<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/where-to-buy\/partners\/eurostor-gmbh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EUROstor<\/a> ES-8700 CLB as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aicipc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AIC<\/a> HA401-LB2 are both 4U 24-Bay Cluster-in-a-Box solutions that are Open-E JovianDSS Certified High Availability Ready. They are offering high-availability in an active-active configuration. Both storage solutions support 12Gbs SAS and come with two Server Boards (one per node). Overall\u00a0 cluster performance is significantly increased as both nodes process I\/Os and provide simultaneous and balanced access to the logical devices. The systems provide the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>High-availability storage server optimized for mission-critical, enterprise-level storage applications<\/li>\n<li>Fully redundant, fault-tolerant system supporting hot swappable compute nodes and storage drives<\/li>\n<li>Two compute nodes, Active-Active configuration, each supporting two Intel\u00aeXeon\u00ae Processors E5-2600 v3 and v4 product family<\/li>\n<li>10 GbE, PCIe NTB or SAS link between nodes for communication and failover<\/li>\n<li>Built-in LSI SAS3x48R SAS\/SATA expander per node<\/li>\n<li>Intel\u00ae Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header to support Intel\u00ae Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)<\/li>\n<li>6 PCIe 3.0 slots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48350 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CiB-Blog3.png\" alt=\"Cluster-in-a-Box\" width=\"680\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/site_media\/download\/presentations\/EUROstor_BROCHURE_WEB_170301.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EUROstor ES-8700CLB Certification Report &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/site_media\/download\/presentations\/AIC_HA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AIC HA401-LB2 Certification Report&gt;&gt;<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open-E JovianDSS provides unlimited options to architect HA storage environments with SMB\/CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols, and\u00a0is the answer to almost any storage requirement, either as a single node, a&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,18,27,28],"tags":[50,146,147,153,253,290,314,469,578],"class_list":["post-48324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-protection","category-hardware","category-open-e-joviandss","category-raid","tag-aic","tag-cluster","tag-cluster-nodes","tag-cluster-in-a-box","tag-eurostor","tag-ha-steup","tag-high-availability","tag-open-e-joviandss","tag-sas"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55232,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324\/revisions\/55232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}