Platform-independent storage clusters
Avago Technologies Syncro® RAID Controllers allow Open-E DSS V7 to create active-active cluster setups with Fibre Channel or iSCSI Shared Storage. The combination of Open-E's software with Avago Technologies Syncro® and hardware of various white box vendors delivers many benefits to IT departments including enterprise-class failover, high-class redundancy, substantially lower implementation cost and easier system manageability.
Advantages of Open-E DSS V7 with Avago Syncro® Solution
- Flexible storage solution for Fibre Channel and iSCSI environments providing high performance and low latency
- Platform-independent: usable with commodity hardware
- Doubled bandwidth through MPIO
- Cost-effectiveness in hardware: both head nodes access all drives simultaneously
- Power usage and heat generation reduced by 50%
- Based on stable Open-E DSS V7
Products comparison
| Open-E DSS V7 with Avago Syncro® Solution | Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active iSCSI Failover | |
|---|---|---|
| Product description |
Open-E DSS V7 with Avago Syncro® Solution offers a compressed high availability solution and powerful alternative to overpriced Fibre Channel and iSCSI solutions. |
The load balanced Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active iSCSI Failover is a different solution, where two systems are connected via Ethernet and form a metro cluster for high availability between locations within a distance of 10 km. |
| Failover type | Shared storage | Metro cluster |
| Volumes | Each volume shared and active on both nodes | Active and a passive copy on each node for each volume |
| Disks | SAS | SATA and SAS |
| JBOD | SAS Dual Expander | SATA/SAS Single Expander |
| Redundancy | RAID level | RAID level – 2 copies of data |
| Cooling & electricity | More efficient | Less efficient |
| Supported protocols in HA | Fibre Channel and iSCSI | iSCSI |
| Connection details | Multipath on client side | Any Ethernet network |
| Caching options | SSD read cache | SSD read and write cache |
| Additional protocols | - | NAS and Fibre Channel (only single node) |
About Avago Technologies
Avago Technologies is a leading designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog, digital, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems with a focus in III-V compound semiconductor design and processing. Backed by an extensive portfolio of intellectual property, Avago products serve four primary target markets: wireless communications, wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial and other.
For more information, visit Avago’s website: www.avagotech.com.
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Free trial
Free trial version of Open-E DSS V7 with Avago Syncro® Solution:
- All features enabled
- Unlimited supported storage space
- 60 day version
Open-E DSS V7 with Avago Syncro® Solution is available only through the Open-E sales Team: sales@open-e.com.