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NAS (NFS) Failover

Date: Jul 25, 2011

High availability is crucial to many applications. Despite using high-quality hardware and superior connection, any node (network, server, storage equipment, etc) is still subject to crashes due to power shortages, communication and equipment faults, fire incidents, maintenance problems or a human factor. These crashes result in a loss of all active connections and data transactions, as well as service termination. The main goal of Failover is to protect company server against such cases.

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Open-E DSS V6 MPIO with VMware ESX 4.0

Date: Jul 25, 2011

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

Date: Jul 25, 2011

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

Date: Jul 25, 2011

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.