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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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Solution for Cloud Hosting Companies
Date: Jul 25, 2011
The reason a customer, searching for suitable cloud service, choose one hosting company over another mostly depends on the specific functionality and level of security they offer for a specific (read: low) price. However, finding a proven performance solution for cloud that meets all client’s expectations is not an easy task.
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High availability storage server
Date: Jul 25, 2011
Failover is an excellent way to implement <strong>High Availability</strong>. It is a work mode that uses two Open-E Data Storage Software V6 servers (primary and secondary). The secondary server, which has a full up-to-date copy of the data, takes over as the file server in the event of a primary server failure.
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NAS (NFS) Failover
Date: Jul 25, 2011
High availability is crucial to many applications. Despite using high-quality hardware and superior connection, any node (network, server, storage equipment, etc) is still subject to crashes due to power shortages, communication and equipment faults, fire incidents, maintenance problems or a human factor. These crashes result in a loss of all active connections and data transactions, as well as service termination. The main goal of Failover is to protect company server against such cases.
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Open-E DSS V6 MPIO with VMware ESX 4.0
Date: Jul 25, 2011
See example configuration of Multipath I/O on Open-E Data Storage Software. To run the Multipath I/O on DSS V6 with VMware ESX 4.0 and Windows 2008 server running as virtual machine, perform the fallowing steps: 1) Hardware configuration 2) Configure the DSS V6 3) Using ESX4 CLI 4) Configure MPIO on ESX 4.0 5) Multipath I/O on DSS V6 with ESX4.
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Service continuity of Windows 2008 failover cluster with Data Storage Software V6 iSCSI Target
Date: Jul 25, 2011
Failover Cluster allows multiple computers work together in order to provide high availability of some services. In case of a situation when a node responsible for a service fails, the second one is able to take over this service and prevents from an unexpected downtime.