Business continuity is becoming a more and more important feature. A significant portion of the purchases of our Data Storage Software are in pairs. Customers are using pairs of 2 systems in order to build high availability clusters with our iSCSI Failover feature. (Our recent webinar on iSCSI Failover was our best attended webinar ever.) Getting to the point: why would one want to make switchless 10Gb connections. Even though 10Gb CX4 ports are inexpensive [...]

Fortunately in Linux  in contrast to our lives we don’t need to choose one path, we are able to choose all paths! In this article, you can find simple description about configuring multipath under Linux for iSCSI (internet Small Computer System Interface) and FC (Fibre Channel) environments. At the very beginning we must configure iSCSI or FC target. We can use trial version of Open-E DSS V6 software. If we decide to use iSCSI target [...]

We all have limited time to study long and complicated information about RAID theories, but you may be interested as to how RAID 5 works. We made it simple for you by providing the shortest and easiest explanation ever. RAID 5 – how it works? First we need to remind you XOR definition: XOR function result is equal 1 if both arguments are different. XOR (0, 1) = 1 XOR (1, 0) = 1 XOR [...]