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: iSCSI Active-Active Failover

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Active-Active HA Cluster ZSPOF Setup - Best Practices

May 28, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Zero-Single-Point-of-Failure (ZSPOF) setup with MPIO and with bonding
  • Zero-Single-Point-of-Failure setup with MPIO only (with step-by-step demo)
  • Ping nodes - best practices
  • Heartbeat paths - best practices
  • Performance - best practices
    • SSD Cache
    • Low cost 10Gbit based setup
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Understanding the log file and quick trouble shooting techniques

May 21, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Open-E DSS V6 or V7 Log file download
  • User Activity logs
  • iSCSI Target logs
  • iSCSI Sessions in tests.log
  • Criticial error logs
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

How to move from Active-Passive to Active-Active mode on Open-E DSS V7

May 7, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Review Active-Passive mode in current environment
  • Applying the Active-Active Key
  • Delete existing Replication Tasks
  • Create the Replication Tasks
  • Add task to Failover and the VIP
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Open-E DSS V7 Quickstart

Apr 30, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

Installation of Open-E DSS V7:
  • Download of ISO or ZIP image
  • Preparing a USB stick with the software installer
  • Installing Open-E DSS V7 as a virtual machine on ESXi

Simple NAS and iSCSI setup:

  • Configuring and accessing a Public NAS Share
  • Connecting to ADS, configuring and accessing a protected Share
  • Configuring and accessing an iSCSI Target
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Installing Open-E DSS V7 with two SSDs for a RAID 1

Apr 23, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Configure SSD RAID 1 on controller
  • Run Open-E DSS V7 installer from CD or USB drive
  • Demo RAID redundancy live by removing 1 SSD
  • Open-E DSS V7 is still running live without downtime
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Applying the Active-Active license while running a Live TRIAL cluster without downtime

Apr 9, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Verify the TRIAL Active-Active Failover is functioning
  • Moving resources to other node and applying the license
  • Applying license to second node
  • Restoring normal cluster setup
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Category: Virtualization

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Open-E DSS V7 as a Virtual Machine - Best Practices

Apr 3, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Installation and configuration of Open-E DSS V7 as a Virtual Machine
  • Para-virtual SCSI and VMXNET3 drivers
  • Configuration of a RAID Controller as PCI DirectPath Device vs. RAW Device Mapping
  • Host Cache Configuration
  • Starting the VM and simple test setup with iSCSI Target and Public NAS share
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

All the possible ways to increase Volume Groups and Logical Volumes

Mar 26, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Increasing size of Volume Group, RAID migration
  • Increasing size of Volume Group, additional Units
  • Increasing size of Logical Volumes after Volume Group expansion
  • Increasing size of Logical Volumes after Volume Group expansion, with replication
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V6

Language: English

Understanding the log file and quick trouble shooting techniques

Mar 12, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Open-E DSS V6 or V7 Download Log File
  • What is in the Log file
  • What main logs does the Open-E Support Team review
  • Searching for history events
  • Why remove logs after downloading the Log file
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Category: iSCSI Active-Active Failover

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Active-Active vs. Active-Passive Cluster performance advantage

Mar 5, 2013

Slawomir Nowakowski - 2nd level Technical Support Engineer

  • Setting up Active-Passive cluster with Open-E DSS V7
  • Setting up Active-Active cluster with Open-E DSS V7
  • Benchmark comparison with Iometer tool