Cloud & Hybrid Data Storage Articles

Share, synchronize, and protect your data using cloud infrastructure, utilizing a data storage solution ready and optimized for the cloud environment.

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NFS Failover

High Availability through Failover is crucial for many companies. Despite using high-quality hardware and superior connections, still any server can crash, leading to data loss. Providing High Availability can be tricky, but fortunately Open-E DSS V7 is able to work with a second node. It keeps data redundant and when aware of the original node’s failure, the redundant node continues serving clients; effectively replacing the missing node. This process is commonly known as Failover.

Open-E at CeBIT 2015

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Open-E at CeBIT 2015

Once again, we took part in the world’s largest IT tradeshow – CeBIT.  This year’s lead theme was Digital Transformation – d!conomy, and together with 3,300 exhibitors from 70 nations …

Supermicro security update for IPMI / BMC firmware. Update now and be safe!

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Supermicro security update for IPMI / BMC firmware. Update now and be safe!

A new security feature to encrypt passwords is available from Supermicro for systems running IPMI 1.5 & 2.0 protocols and/or BMC firmware. If you haven’t done so already, please update …

Is your Heartbleeding?

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Is your Heartbleeding?

The Heartbleed bug, officially referenced as CVE-2014-0160, is already being coined as one of the biggest security threats since the mass adoption of the Internet – affecting millions of websites …

Diary of an admin: Backup and Data Replication

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Diary of an admin: Backup and Data Replication

Among many technologies that increase data storage protection, the term ‘replication’ is used very frequently. Replication, as a way of creating an exact data copy between the source storage location …

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NAS - effective storage solution for small business

Learn how Network Attached Storage can boost the productivity of your business. We are presenting some of the most important benefits of NAS that make it an ideal choice for your small business.

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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E DSS V7

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Typical Administrator tasks done while iSCSI Failover is running

Jan 8, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Add new volumes into a running cluster
  • Remove a volume from a running cluster
  • Move volumes between resource pools for load balancing tuning
  • Expand the volume size while the cluster is running
  • Power outage simulation of both cluster nodes and starting the cluster after a power restore
  • Software update while running a cluster

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Achieve High Performance in a High Availability Environment with Open-E DSS V7

Having a highly available storage is one thing, but what about its overall performance? Learn how you can achieve both, using Open-E DSS V7 with iSCSI Active-Active Feature Pack.

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Category: Data Protection

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Open-E DSS V7 Data Replication with a Linux OS

Nov 6, 2012

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Create an Open-E DSS V7 NAS volume
  • Create a Snapshot volume
  • Enable the Data Replication Agent
  • Create the NAS Share
  • Setup the R-Sync on the Linux host
  • Setup the Data Replication Task
  • Run the Task and verify the data was replicated to the Linux host
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Category: Data Protection

Product: Open-E DSS V7

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Data Replication with a Microsoft application

Oct 23, 2012

Greg Rafinski - Technical Systems Engineer

  • Setup your NAS Logical Volume
  • Setup the Data Replication Agent for the assigned NAS Share
  • Configure DeltaCopy on the MS Server
  • Run the DeltaCopy to replicate the Data to the Open-E DSS V7 NAS Share
  • Verify the data is on the NAS Share