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Products comparison & recommendations
Open-E offers various storage software products – each of them recommended for different purposes: from software dedicated for small and medium businesses to software for highly demanding environments such as data centers.
Open-E JovianDSS |
Open-E DSS V7 |
Open-E DSS V7 SOHO |
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ZFS based storage operating system:
It is the answer to almost any storage requirement, either as a single node, a virtualized HA setup
or a Big Data cluster environment.
Thin provisioning, tiered caching and deduplication make this product a solution for high demand enterprise requirements. |
XFS based unified storage operating system:
It helps both small and medium businesses to implement high performing, yet cost-effective and robust data storage solutions.
iSCSI and NAS unified in one flexible software solution. The iSCSI active-active failover adds extra performance for demanding installations. One year of support included. |
XFS based free version of Open-E DSS V7: Previously known as Open-E DSS V7 Lite. With SOHO, you can take advantage of basic NAS / SAN functionalities with a capacity of 4TB free of charge and inexpensive additional storage extensions. Single Case Basic Support available. |
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| Maximum storage | Unlimited |
Unlimited
(recommended < 200TB) |
36TB |
| Maximum volume size | Unlimited | 64TB | 36TB |
| Min. hardware requirements | 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM, HBA | 4 CPU cores, 8GB RAM, H/W RAID adapter | 2GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM |
| Architecture | 64-bit | 64-bit | 64-bit |
| Storage model | Storage pools | Logical volumes | Logical volumes |
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FREE (4TB) |
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| HA cluster architecture | Physical drives shared between nodes | Logical volumes replicated over Ethernet | N/A |
| Metro storage cluster |
Yes (iSCSI, FC and NFS, SMB (CIFS)) |
Yes (NFS, iSCSI) |
N/A |
| Shared storage cluster |
Yes (iSCSI, FC and NFS, SMB (CIFS)) |
No | N/A |
| Independent Virtual IPs for HA Cluster | Yes | No | N/A |
| Max. clustered volume size | Unlimited | 64TB | N/A |
| Max. clustered storage size | Unlimited | Unlimited | N/A |
| Persistent Reservation Synchronization | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Node replacement with no cluster downtime | Yes | No | N/A |
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| Cluster in a Box (CiB) |
Yes
Read more » |
N/A | N/A |
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Common Storage Cluster over SAS |
Yes
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N/A | N/A |
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Cluster over SAS with internal SAS expander |
Yes
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N/A | N/A |
| Cluster with multiple JBODs over SAS |
Yes
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N/A | N/A |
| Cluster with multiple JBODs over FC |
Yes
Read more » |
N/A | N/A |
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Cluster with multiple JBODs over SAS / FC (with ATTO bridges) |
Yes
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N/A | N/A |
| Cluster over Ethernet |
Yes
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Yes
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N/A |
| Protocols | |||
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| iSCSI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NAS (SMB/CIFS, FTP, Secure FTP, HTTP, Apple Talk, NFS v2, v3) | NFS, SMB/CIFS | Yes | Yes |
| Fibre Channel | Yes | Yes | No |
| IP over Infiniband (connector mode) | Yes | Yes | No |
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| On- & Off-site Data Protection |
Yes Read more » |
No | No |
| VAAI | Yes | No | No |
| Caching | Native, tiered RAM and SSD or NVMe | Hardware support | No |
| Thin Provisioning | Yes | No | No |
| Over Provisioning | Yes | No | No |
| Deduplication | Yes | No | No |
| Compression | Yes | No | No |
| Snapshots | Unlimited | Up to 20 | Up to 20 |
| Clones | Unlimited | No | No |
| VSS Hardware Provider | Yes | No | No |
| Data & metadata check-summing | Yes | No | No |
| Atomic transaction writes | Yes | No | No |
| Online data checking and repairing (Scrub) | Yes | No | No |
| Storing multiple copies of user data | Yes | No | No |
| iSCSI and NFS restricted connections | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Storage live expansion without downtime | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SNMP | Yes | Yes | No |
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| VMware certification | VMware Ready V5.5, V6.0, V6.5 | VMware Ready V5.5, V6.0, V6.5 | No |
| Citrix certification | In progress | Citrix Ready | No |
| Hyper-V certification | Tested and confirmed | Tested and confirmed | No |
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| Benefits |
60 days long trial period (JovianDSS and V7) Free of charge with no credit card required All features available Go to download page No credit card required |
60 days long trial period (JovianDSS and V7) Free of charge with no credit card required All features available Go to download page No credit card required |
Full product free of charge (for soho) Go to download page Free of charge |