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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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Warming Up for Intel Solutions Summit 2013

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Warming Up for Intel Solutions Summit 2013

Date: Apr 5, 2013

We are excited to be back for another Intel Solution Summit (ISS). This year, it will be hosted at the Convention Centre in Dublin, Ireland ISS 2013 gathers top Intel …

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

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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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Get the most out of your storage with an Active-Active setup!

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Get the most out of your storage with an Active-Active setup!

Date: Apr 2, 2013

Recent test comparison of Open-E DSS V7 iSCSI Active-Active and Active-Passive Failover proved, how beneficial for the storage system can be to apply the Active-Active configuration. Better throughput and faster …

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

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Category: Virtualization

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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Open-E DSS V7 declared VMware Ready™

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Open-E DSS V7 declared VMware Ready™

Date: Feb 14, 2013

Open-E is happy to announce its latest software release achieved the VMware Ready™ status. The VMware Ready™ designation indicates that after a detailed validation process Open-E Data Storage Software Version …

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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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Category: Virtualization

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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Next series of OECE Training events for partners starts in October

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Next series of OECE Training events for partners starts in October

Date: Oct 2, 2012

OECE Training events are back! Open-E offers partners the opportunity to become an Open-E Certified Engineer (OECE). During a two day training session, engineers get a chance to obtain skills …

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