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Open-E DSS V7 as a virtual machine on VMware

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 ...

July 31, 2012
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Active-Active Automatic Failover for iSCSI and Open-E DSS V7

July is a pretty big month for Open-E. Massive actually. The most wanted and highly anticipated functionality became available in the new Data Storage Software Version 7. After many months ...

July 25, 2012
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Unusual request…

Last week I was visiting a customer in Sweden for product training. One of the main reasons they required an on-site training was for a very unusual request: The goal ...

June 21, 2012
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DSS V6 Powered Duplex-Server, a Better Dual Controller

THIS ARTICLE IS LEGACY PRODUCT-RELATED NO LONGER SUPPORTED BY OPEN-E Recently I was reading an old post about the end of the Dual Controller Architecture. www.informationweek.com/news/storage/ Today, almost 4 years ...

May 01, 2012
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New Case Studies on our Website

We have recently updated our website with three new Case Studies where our partners starline, ibc and TEMA present how and with which hardware they used Open-E to install high ...

April 30, 2012
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How to recycle data

What to do with old hard disks? What to do if your company is going to upgrade its equipment? How to get rid of any useless hardware? However we approach ...

December 19, 2011
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Recommendations for boot media with DSS V6

Here we present two ways of thinking about the issue of boot media in cooperation with Open-E DSS V6. Take a look below – there are following options to consider: ...

December 01, 2011
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RAID 5? RAID 6? Or Another AltErnativEE?

Updated 19/11/2021 Here we are again with the next part of our RAID series. This time we’ll be taking a look at RAID 5, RAID 6, and two alternatives – ...

November 04, 2011
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Apple Time Machine and Open-E DSS V6. Short step-by-step and one tip

Do you love your data as much as your MacBook®? Well, this is the article (and software) for you. Apple Time Machine® is backup software developed by Apple® Inc. and ...

October 27, 2011
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Storage with iSCSI target (built-in DSS V6)

How to boot an operating system from a remote iSCSI disk?

Want to reduce energy costs and the risk of possible data loss? A dynamic increase of data volumes leads to greater the hardware requirements and greater power consumption – forces ...