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 Open-E DSS V7 as a Virtual Machine. In this post we will do it with VMware. First, you need to download the Open-E DSS V7 TRIAL version from our website. http://www.open-e.com/download/open-e-data-storage-software-v7/ Please download the ISO file. Next, in the VMware GUI upload the ISO into [...]

We wanted to provide you an in-depth explanation of the Ping-Node offering clarifications on its function and usage. Incorrect Ping-Node configuration and functionality can cause problems with HA clusters. The importance of this post is critical for a proper setup with the iSCSI Failover. Why do we need a ping-node or rather ping-nodes? DSS V6 iSCSI Failover (and soon NFS Failover) uses a heartbeat to check the Primary and Secondary hosts to each other. We [...]

I am not kidding. We were getting queries about the performance of our latest DSS V6 build 4786. So I needed to quickly set up a performance benchmark. It took me about 5 minutes to set one up with a Fibre Channel volume connected to a VMware ESXi 4.1.0 host. My test server has a 4Gb dual-port FC HBA, so in order to get maximum performance I configured a round-robin Multipath. Then I ran IOmeter [...]

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 [...]