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Active-Active Failover with Avago Syncro Solution

Date: Jun 16, 2015

The Avago Syncro™ technology is a solution for businesses of all sizes that require high available storage for high performance, high capacity or hybrid system. The Syncro™ CS solution is a hardware based, high-available DAS which is shared between two head-nodes. In combination with Open-E DSS V7 software, it is possible to create a customized solution for any need, from a high performance SSD storage to high capacity 3,5” HDD server with SDD caching.

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Fibre Channel Storage

Date: Jun 16, 2015

Fibre Channel (FC) Storage uses a high-speed network technology for data storage that has become a common connection type for SAN enterprise storage. It is especially suited for creating SAN topologies for virtualization, data center or other demanding platforms. The technology offers point-to-point, switched, and loop interfaces, and is designed to interoperate with SCSI.

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Active-Active Failover with Avago Syncro Solution

Date: Jun 16, 2015

The Avago Syncro™ technology is a solution for businesses of all sizes that require high available storage for high performance, high capacity or hybrid system. The Syncro™ CS solution is a hardware based, high-available DAS which is shared between two head-nodes. In combination with Open-E DSS V7 software, it is possible to create a customized solution for any need, from a high performance SSD storage to high capacity 3,5” HDD server with SDD caching.

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iSCSI Failover

Date: Jun 16, 2015

The Failover feature provides High Availability of data. In an iSCSI Failover setup of two servers, data is saved on both servers simultaneously. When one system fails, its processes and all resources are being relocated to and restarted on the second node. The Active-Passive setup allows having all volumes active on one node (the primary node), while the other node has all passive copies and takes over the tasks in case of an emergency (the secondary node). A load-balanced Active-Active Failover on the other hand, doesn’t have a primary or secondary node. It adds extra performance by enabling the user to decide which volumes are active on which node. The failover process is the same, but the servers are able to utilize their full network performance and eliminate the unnecessary cost of idle hardware.

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iSCSI Storage

Date: Jun 16, 2015

iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) is a type of protocol providing a proficient usage of disk space together with data safety and increased performance. A centralized storage management that uses iSCSI and RAID technologies enables a comfortable administration and reduced downtime in case of a hard drive failure. It enables building SAN (Storage Area Network) storage systems using SCSI disk arrays and Ethernet (TCP / IP). Its main advantage is the ability to create an iSCSI SAN with an extensive use of typical networking elements which facilitates system building and reduces its costs.

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Open-E at CeBIT 2015

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Open-E at CeBIT 2015

Date: Mar 25, 2015

Once again, we took part in the world’s largest IT tradeshow – CeBIT.  This year’s lead theme was Digital Transformation – d!conomy, and together with 3,300 exhibitors from 70 nations …

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Supermicro security update for IPMI / BMC firmware. Update now and be safe!

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Supermicro security update for IPMI / BMC firmware. Update now and be safe!

Date: Jul 2, 2014

A new security feature to encrypt passwords is available from Supermicro for systems running IPMI 1.5 & 2.0 protocols and/or BMC firmware. If you haven’t done so already, please update …

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Hyper-V setup and tuning iSCSI failover (SAN)

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Hyper-V setup and tuning iSCSI failover (SAN)

Date: Jun 4, 2014

During the past few years more and more businesses of all shapes and sizes started taking advantage of server virtualization. After all, thanks to this technology organizations are able to …

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Is your Heartbleeding?

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Is your Heartbleeding?

Date: Apr 25, 2014

The Heartbleed bug, officially referenced as CVE-2014-0160, is already being coined as one of the biggest security threats since the mass adoption of the Internet – affecting millions of websites …

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Diary of an admin: Backup and Data Replication

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Diary of an admin: Backup and Data Replication

Date: Oct 30, 2013

Among many technologies that increase data storage protection, the term ‘replication’ is used very frequently. Replication, as a way of creating an exact data copy between the source storage location …

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