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Maintenance Mode in Open-E DSS V7 explained

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Maintenance Mode in Open-E DSS V7 explained

Date: Jul 27, 2016

Thus far, we have been focusing mainly on Open-E JovianDSS and its major new feature, the Off-site Data Protection with Consistent Snapshots. Today we would like to give some attention to a …

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Category: Data Protection

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

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Data Integrity by design - Self-healing with Open-E JovianDSS

May 24, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Introduction to the demo environment
  • Data and Metadata Check-summing
  • Self-healing: Detecting and correcting silent data errors with the Scrub utility
  • Silent Data Corruption emulation and Self-healing demonstration
  • Atomic Transaction Writes: Keeping data continuously consistent without the need for repairing the file system
  • Power failure emulation and power recovery demonstration
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Category: Data Protection

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

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Auto Snapshots and Volume Clones with Open-E JovianDSS

May 20, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Introduction to the demo environment
  • Rotational Auto Snapshots scheduled with a retention interval plan
  • Auto Snapshot setup and maintenance
  • Creating and accessing Volume Clones from Snapshots
Monitoring Open-E DSS V7 and Open-E JovianDSS with Checkmk

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Monitoring Open-E DSS V7 and Open-E JovianDSS with Checkmk

Date: May 10, 2016

NOTE: This article and included resources may contain a name of a product formerly known as Check_MK. Currently, the product name has been changed to Checkmk. Checkmk is now included …

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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

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Open-E JovianDSS with HGST 4U60 Storage Enclosure

Apr 26, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer / Davide Villa - Sales Director EMEA at HGST

  • Introduction to HGST 4U60 Storage Enclosure
  • Active-Active HA Cluster with Open-E JovianDSS using the HGST JBOD (step-by-step cluster setup, testing the failover, disk replacement demo, running the IOmeter benchmark)
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Category: Data Protection

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

Language: English

Subtitles: Spanish, English

Disaster Recovery with Open-E JovianDSS Off-site Data Protection Service

Apr 11, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Setup introduction
  • Data deduplication and compression demo (optimization by factor ~70)
  • ODPS (Off-site Data Protection Service) Quick Start (attaching the backup node, creating a backup task, listing backup tasks, checking the replication status)
  • Simulating pool corruption and Disaster Recovery
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Open-E DSS V7 HA Cluster Maintenance Mode - Part 2

Mar 17, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Cluster reconfiguration and rebuild without downtime (live demo)
  • Enable / disable Cluster Maintenance Mode
  • Ping node reconfiguration without downtime
  • Network Interface Card replacement without downtime
  • Storage Unit replacement without downtime
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Open-E DSS V7 HA Cluster Maintenance Mode

Mar 7, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • New features in Open-E DSS V7 up56
  • HA Cluster Maintenance Mode
  • Data replication: Block-mode, compressed and encrypted transport, Check_MK monitoring
  • E-mail notification based on severity levels
  • Driver updates and fixes
  • HA Cluster Maintenance Mode (live demo)
  • Cluster reconfiguration without downtime
  • Cluster node replacement without downtime
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Building a hyper-converged HA infrastructure with Open-E JovianDSS VSA and VMware

Feb 10, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • 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
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

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Active-Active Load-Balanced HA Storage Cluster with Open-E JovianDSS

Jan 18, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • 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