Resources on www.open-e.com related to Open-E JovianDSS and VMware

Open-E JovianDSS, in collaboration with any certified hypervisor, is able to create sophisticated Hyper-converged Infrastructures for small and medium companies, as well as small enterprises. The result is a cost-effective, flexible and scalable solution for virtualization that offers performance and data efficiency.

The aim of this document is to demonstrate how to emulate Open-E- JovianDSS High Availability Cluster physical setup. This is for a virtual environment. It shows in step-by-step, how to install two virtual machines on VMware ESXi with shared storage.

Introduction to Open-E JovianDSS Off-site Data Protection. Hyper-converged setup with Open-E JovianDSS and VMware ESX. Around the clock backup of everything and disaster recovery - Setup and best practices. Fast restore from backup and quick recovery after a disaster - Live demo. Easy access to previous versions without help of the administrator - Live demo.

Open-E JovianDSS storage feature set introduction (Data Integrity, Protection, Availability, Acceleration, Optimization, Accessibility, Virtualization). Open-E JovianDSS as a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) on VMware ESXi. Setting up an Open-E JovianDSS VSA High Availability Load-balanced Cluster with Multipath. Testing the cluster.

Zero-Single-Point-of-Failure configuration. Pros and cons of Active-Active and Active-Passive setups. iSCSI and NFS Active-Active HA Cluster step-by-step setup. High Availability cluster setup in a virtual environment with VMware. Testing planned and unplanned failover.

When Boston heard of the issues regarding the current software, they recommended testing the ZFS- and Linux-based Open-E JovianDSS software with a trial version. And COMPRION was convinced immediately. The Software Defined solution with Open-E JovianDSS is based on an Open-E Certified Storage Server from Boston. Server & Storage Solutions. The Igloo 4U-24T-Stor consists of two Intel ®Xeon®processors E5-2630 v3 2.40GHz as well as 12 certified 8GB DDR4 2133MHz ECC registered. The raw capacity is 22TB. 10 VMware hosts were integrated via vSpere 5.5.

POLY-TOOLS contacted their long-time IT consultant – save IT first from Germany – who proposed a strategy with two new VMware ESX servers and a storage system. By co-operating with Open-E Gold Partner EUROstor from Filderstadt, who presented an active-active iSCSI cluster configuration based on Open-E DSS V7, the company would be able to cover all requirements.