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Voting time! Open-E DSS V7 receives another award nomination

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Voting time! Open-E DSS V7 receives another award nomination

Date: May 17, 2013

Once again this year, we have been recognized by the storage industry and received a nomination for an award. This time, Open-E DSS V7 has been selected for the Storage …

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Open-E DSS V7 as a Virtual Machine - Best Practices

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Category: Virtualization

Product: Open-E DSS V7

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Open-E DSS V7 as a Virtual Machine - Best Practices

Apr 3, 2013

01:18:08

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Installation and configuration of Open-E DSS V7 as a Virtual Machine
  • Para-virtual SCSI and VMXNET3 drivers
  • Configuration of a RAID Controller as PCI DirectPath Device vs. RAW Device Mapping
  • Host Cache Configuration
  • Starting the VM and simple test setup with iSCSI Target and Public NAS share
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Active-Active HA Cluster Solution for Windows 2012 Hyper-V Cluster

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Product: Open-E DSS V7

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Active-Active HA Cluster Solution for Windows 2012 Hyper-V Cluster

Feb 21, 2013

01:07:05

  • Open-E DSS V7 iSCSI Failover Active-Active Cluster step-by-step setup
  • 2 nodes Hyper-V Cluster step-by-step setup
  • Create a virtual machine
  • Testing planned and unplanned failover
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Typical Administrator tasks done while iSCSI Failover is running

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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E DSS V7

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Typical Administrator tasks done while iSCSI Failover is running

Jan 8, 2013

01:30:02

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Add new volumes into a running cluster
  • Remove a volume from a running cluster
  • Move volumes between resource pools for load balancing tuning
  • Expand the volume size while the cluster is running
  • Power outage simulation of both cluster nodes and starting the cluster after a power restore
  • Software update while running a cluster
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Achieve High Performance in a High Availability Environment with Open-E DSS V7

Date: Dec 21, 2012

Having a highly available storage is one thing, but what about its overall performance? Learn how you can achieve both, using Open-E DSS V7 with iSCSI Active-Active Feature Pack.

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Storage Solutions with iSCSI Auto Failover to install your Virtual Machine

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Product: Open-E DSS V7

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Storage Solutions with iSCSI Auto Failover to install your Virtual Machine

Nov 20, 2012

00:27:06

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Verify your ISCSI Auto Failover
  • Check your VIP via Ping from ESX
  • Connect the ESX server to the VIP
  • Use iSCSI Storage Adapter in ESX
  • Create the Datastore from the Target
  • Install the Virtual Machine
  • Failover while installing the Virtual
  • Machine to test Failover is working
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Asynchronous Volume Replication of VMware Virtual Machines with DSS V6 and Acronis Backup & Recovery software

Date: Dec 22, 2011

This article shows practical solution that can be used as a replacement for Asynchronous Volume Replication in customers environment. The solution describes how effectively prevent a decrease in performance when saving files to storage in organizations which has several regional branches located worldwide.

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Booting from Highly Available iSCSI LUN with Open-E DSS V6 via Storage Area Network (SAN)

Date: Oct 20, 2011

The solution of how to boot an operating system from a remote iSCSI disk. This configuration, along with the Automatic iSCSI Failover, allows you to enjoy high availability of resources and better data loss prevention.

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VMware, VMotion and Open-E DSS V6 - how-to in 21 steps

Date: Sep 30, 2011

A short step-by-step manual: How to install and use VMware with VMotion in cooperation with Open-E DSS V6.

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Open-E DSS V6 as a Perfect Solution for Storage Virtualization

Date: Jul 29, 2011

Any interruption in access to key information can result in outrageous costs, proving the importance of high availability of company resources. Storage virtualization provides increased performance and security of information exchange and storage.

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