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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!

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 …

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

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  • 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
Open-E DSS V7 declared VMware Ready™

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Open-E DSS V7 declared VMware Ready™

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 …

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
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

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 …

Open-E DSS V7 as a virtual machine on VMware

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Open-E DSS V7 as a virtual machine on VMware

Most of us use Virtual Environments for production, testing, training or just for a demo. This is why we would like to be sure you know how to install our …

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Asynchronous Volume Replication of VMware Virtual Machines with DSS V6 and Acronis Backup & Recovery software

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

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

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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Open-E DSS V6 MPIO with VMware ESX 4.0

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.