Webinars List

Welcome to our webinar section. Here you'll find everything from how Active-Active clusters work to why the ZFS system is so spectacular, all presented via video. If you find something that piques your interest; just click on the video and let our long-time experts explain said topic.

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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Solutions with Auto Failover when Adding new volume Replicated Tasks

Feb 28, 2012

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Verifying the Auto Failover is stable and functioning
  • How to apply the Small Update to allow for the added Tasks
  • Restart the Auto Failover service from the Secondary
  • Apply the Small Update to the Primary and Failover to the Secondary
  • Adding the tasks to the Auto Failover
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Category: Open-E DSS V6 Essentials

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

HA Solution with VMware and Open-E DSS V6 as Virtual Storage Appliance

Feb 14, 2012

  • Demo: Installation and configuration of Open-E DSS V6 as Virtual Machine.
    Paravirtual SCSI and VMXNET drivers
  • HA Cluster with two physical servers instead of four.
    DSS V6 running as virtual machines vs. DSS V6 on physical server
  • Demo: iSCSI Failover with Open-E DSS V6 running as virtual machines on two hosts with Vmware ESXi 5.0 configured as HA cluster
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Storage Solutions with Acronis vmProtect 6, VMware and Open-E DSS V6

Feb 14, 2012

  • What the vmProtect 6.0 can do for Backing up your Virtual Machines
  • Verify the datastores are working with the Open-E DSS V6 Targets
  • Install and Run the vmProtect so connct to the ESX host
  • Create a Backup task to back up the Virtual Machines
  • How to Restore from Backup to the Virtual Machines
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Cloud Storage made simple with Simpaticorp and Open-E DSS V6

Jan 31, 2012

  • What is the cloud? Is the cloud ready?
  • Where are the costs of SaaS (Storage as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) for the data center?
  • Why is Open-E DSS V6 best suited for offsite (data center) storage?
  • Virtualized vs. Dedicated Open-E DSS V6 SAN
  • Virtualization and Failover with Open-E DSS V6 in the cloud
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Storage Solutions with Adaptec maxCache powered by STEC SSD

Jan 10, 2012

  • Introduction: Adaptec MaxCache
  • Introduction: STEC SSD
  • Overview of the Open-E DSS V6 with Adaptec maxCache and STEC SSD
  • Demo: Setup of iSCSI Volumes on DSS V6
  • Demo: Comparison benchmarking of RAID array with and without SSD Cache
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Category: Open-E DSS V6 Essentials

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Storage Solutions when Bonding and MPIO with Auto Failover

Dec 13, 2011

  • Setup the proper NICs for Bonding (if using Jumbo Frames set for both)
  • Select the NICs for the MPIO
  • Select the Virtual IP Adresses to be used with the MPIO
  • Start the Auto Failover service
  • Check the iSCSI initiator settings and set the MPIO functions
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Storage Solutons with Multipathing FC Targets with XEN

Dec 4, 2011

  • Configure the Fiber Channel HBA for Target Mode with the Qlogic
  • Create the Fiber Channel volume
  • Setup the Alias and WWN for the Fiber Channel HBA
  • Assign the Alias to the Fiber Channel Group
  • Verify the Fiber Channnel connection with XEN
  • Setup the Multipath in the XEN server
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Storage solutions with WAN Data Replication

Nov 29, 2011

  • Setup the NAS Logical volumes on both Open-E DSS V6 servers
  • Create the Snapshot and assign to the Souce NAS Logical Volume
  • Enable the Data Replication feature on both Open-E DSS V6 servers
  • Configure the Router to use Port 873
  • Perform the Data Replication function
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

High Available iSCSI Storage for VMware 5.0

Nov 22, 2011

  • How to configure Open-E DSS V6 iSCSI-Failover
  • How to connect iSCSI storage in ESXi 5.0
  • Demo of how Open-E DSS V6 iSCSI-Failover tolerates power outage of the primary storage
  • Demo of how Open-E DSS V6 iSCSI-Failover tolerates IO-errors
  • How to join Open-E DSS V6 node to a cluster after a total RAID disaster
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Storage Solutions to Troubleshooting Performance Issues

Nov 15, 2011

  • Verify that the Open-E DSS V6 and all Firmware is updated
  • Check if all NIC connections are performing at proper speeds - Run the Ping function from the Console Tools
  • Review the log file from the Open-E DSS V6
  • Check RAID Controller to make sure the Write Cache is enabled