Open-E Data Storage Software for Virtualization

Create a sophisticated enterprise infrastructure with Open-E JovianDSS Data Storage and VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, or any other certified hypervisor.

Open-E JovianDSS Virtualization Options: Your Hypervisor-agnostic Data Storage

As virtualization is one of the most effective data storage practices, you should be able to choose from a wide range of hypervisors to pick the one that most likely suits your preferences. That is exactly why we care about providing hypervisor-agnostic data storage solutions. In fact, 80% of Open-E implementations involve virtualization, whether it’s data storage for virtualization or virtualized storage, and it supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, ProxMox, Xen, XenServer, Citrix, XCP-ng, and more. The result is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable solution for virtualization that offers high availability, high performance, and data efficiency.

Open-E JovianDSS utilizes Thin Provisioning and Overallocation (through iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NFS protocols) to host hundreds of virtual machines in a relatively small storage space. Thanks to its flexibility, you can use Open-E JovianDSS as a physical data storage backend for virtualization and a virtualized data storage (virtual machine) within the hypervisor.

Hypervisor-agnostic Software

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Proxmox VE
Integration

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Possible Models of Open‑E JovianDSS Deployments
in Virtual Environments


Open-E JovianDSS as a Storage Backend for the Hypervisor

Benefits:

  • Native (higher than virtualized) storage performance
  • A straightforward, easy-to-configure solution
  • More flexibility in terms of hardware and storage infrastructure

Note! This configuration requires 2 physical servers and it results in higher TCO (total cost of ownership). It also has more potential points of hardware failure than other models.
 

Open-E JovianDSS as Virtualized Storage Within the Hypervisor

Benefits:

  • Convenient maintenance with full remote management
  • Faster deployment compared to a solution with a hardware-based storage backend
  • Less hardware is required

Note! In this configuration, the CPU is shared with the hypervisor, storage, and virtual machines which results in lower storage performance. Additionally, the hypervisor is a single point of failure here.
 

Open-E JovianDSS as Virtualized Storage Within a HA Cluster of VMware Hypervisors

Open-E JovianDSS as Virtualized Storage Within a HA Cluster of VMware Hypervisors scheme

Benefits:

  • Eliminates a single point of failure due to failovers between both the storage servers and the hypervisors.
  • Ensures uninterrupted operations in typical failure scenarios.

Note! This configuration requires 2 physical servers and it results in higher TCO.
 

Open-E JovianDSS as a Storage Backend in Fully Virtualized Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

Benefits:

  • All infrastructure – inc. networking – is fully virtualized and therefore fully configurable
  • Less IT infrastructure complexity
  • Deploys on commodity hardware
  • Most efficient maintenance and management
  • Lowest TCO in many scenarios

Note! This configuration is not suitable for scenarios that require the highest possible performance available e.g. big data processing.
 

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Delve into our brochure to uncover comprehensive insights into data storage within hyper-converged infrastructure. Discover numerous benefits, including:

  • Energy conservation
  • Seamless hardware integration and availability
  • Facilitation of capacity expansion
  • Centralized management
  • Data protection in a novel ecosystem
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