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Open-E DSS V6 MPIO with VMware ESX 4.0

See example configuration of Multipath I/O on Open-E Data Storage Software. To run the Multipath I/O on DSS V6 with VMware ESX 4.0 and Windows 2008 server running as virtual machine, perform the fallowing steps: 1) Hardware configuration 2) Configure the DSS V6 3) Using ESX4 CLI 4) Configure MPIO on ESX 4.0 5) Multipath I/O on DSS V6 with ESX4.

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Open-E DSS V6 MPIO with Windows 2008

See example configuration of Multipath I/O on Open-E Data Storage Software. To run the Multipath I/O on DSS V6 with Windows 2008 server, perform the following steps: 1) Hardware configuration 2) Configure the DSS V6 3) Multipath I/O on DSS V6 with Windows 2008.

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Open-E DSS V7 as a Software for Cloud Storage

Open-E Data Storage Software V7 is being increasingly used as the go-to software for cloud storage. This is one of the many purposes our software can be used for. Cloud storage is now very popular as an alternative to having an additional backup service. What are the benefits of using cloud storage?

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Service continuity of Windows 2008 failover cluster with Data Storage Software V6 iSCSI Target

Failover Cluster allows multiple computers work together in order to provide high availability of some services. In case of a situation when a node responsible for a service fails, the second one is able to take over this service and prevents from an unexpected downtime.

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Solutions and Examples for Backup and Restore

Making regular backups is a necessary but laborious and time consuming task. As the amount of information increases, the process becomes longer and even more cumbersome. Ultimately the question of data integrity arises: How reliably can backups be restored and how fast can mission critical systems be brought back online?

Public cloud hosting: how do they do it?

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Public cloud hosting: how do they do it?

Recently we’ve seen an explosion of new ideas based on the ‘cloud computing’ concept, and the chances are that many of you want to participate in this lucrative market as …

Rebuilds and Replication Against Hardware Failure Consequences

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Rebuilds and Replication Against Hardware Failure Consequences

Hardware failure can be a show stopper for any shop without proper backups and hardware reserves. It can be very costly to send hard drives for data recovery. Even with …

Slow Network and It’s Impact on Business Processes

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Slow Network and It’s Impact on Business Processes

While you are using WAN network you may face the problem of slow connections. It may cause various difficulties – i.e. during replication process. Open-E Data Storage Software – as …

Backup it, lose it, restore it and stay calm – 10 basic rules for the wary

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Backup it, lose it, restore it and stay calm – 10 basic rules for the wary

Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular reason. As they say: “it happens”. All we can do is …

It is Impossible to Delete This File!

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It is Impossible to Delete This File!

This short story is about how important backing up your data is and how sometimes incidents that people have with regards to data loss or having a second copy of …