Main Open-E JovianDSS Features for Virtualization
Thanks to Open-E JovianDSS’ data storage solutions, you can benefit from a hardware-independent fully virtualized IT environment. You are free to choose any hypervisor to run as many virtual machines as you need. 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.
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 a HA Cluster of VMware Hypervisors
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 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 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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