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 V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Active-Active HA Cluster Solution for Hyper-V 2012 Cluster (ZSPOF Setup)

Nov 12, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Zero-Single-Point-of-Failure Configuration
  • Open-E DSS V7 iSCSI Failover Active-Active Cluster step-by-step setup
  • Two nodes Hyper-V 2012 Cluster step-by-step setup
  • Creating a virtual machine
  • Testing planned and unplanned failover
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Bypass the Software Installer and directly boot Open-E DSS V7

Sep 24, 2013

Todd Maxwell

  • Download the Open-E DSS V7 ZIP file
  • Unpack the ZIP file
  • Locate the config.exe file in the boot directory
  • Start the config.exe file to boot without the software installer
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Update your RAID controllers' firmware

Sep 10, 2013

Todd Maxwell

  • Check current firmware
  • Locate newest firmware from vendor
  • Upload firmware
  • Reboot Open-E DSS V7
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

What to do when your RAID controller fails in auto failover

Aug 20, 2013

Todd Maxwell

  • Verifying the remote node has the resources and the volumes are in source mode
  • Repairing the servers' new RAID controller and volumes
  • Setting up volumes for replication
  • Starting tasks
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Proven SSD Cache advantages with LSI NYTRO MegaRAID

Aug 1, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Examples of performance test patterns
  • Sequential test results comparison with and without SSD Cache
  • "Real-life" test results comparison with and without SSD Cache
  • SQLIO test results comparison with and without SSD Cache
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Open-E DSS V7 verifying your SPEEDs for your RAID Array and NICs

Jul 30, 2013

Todd Maxwell

  • Test the read and write speeds of the RAID array
  • Install small update for the NIC speed test
  • Setup the NIC on Open-E DSS V7 for source and the other for destination
  • Verify NIC Info in the console screen
  • Perform NIC speed tests
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Category: Virtualization

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

LSI RAID as passthrough device for VMware ESX

Jul 16, 2013

Todd Maxwell

  • Installing Open-E DSS V7 as VSA
  • Enabling RAID as passthrough device in vClient
  • Adding the RAID to Open-E DSS V7
  • Creating RAID unit using Open-E DSS V7 Web GUI and MSSM
  • Checking the performance from the console accessing the log file
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Category: Open-E DSS V7 Essentials

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Script Control of Open-E DSS V7 with CLI/API via SSH and PuTTY (Plink)

Jul 9, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Step-by-step configuration of Open-E DSS V7
  • SSH vs. PuTTY (Plink)
  • CLI/API examples demo (snapshot start, stop, status and reboot, shutdown)
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Category: Open-E DSS V7 Essentials

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Storage Solutions with SMB user audit

Jun 18, 2013

Todd Maxwell

  • Installing User Audit small update 70130-DSS-V7_SMB_users_audit
  • Setting up NAS volume and SMB share
  • Creating SMB audit log share
  • Enabling logging in NAS settings
  • Accessing the log file
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Category: Open-E DSS V7 Essentials

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Connect Open-E DSS V7 to a NIS Server

Jun 4, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Configure the NIS without containing users and groups below 101
  • Verify the NIS server is running
  • Connect to the NIS server