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: RAID Solutions

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Storage Solutions when the RAID Array halts the system while booting

Feb 26, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Open-E DSS V6 or DSS V7 does not fully boot past 59%
  • Verify the RAID Array's health
  • Using the boot loader options to fully boot the system in Rescue Mode
  • Create another Volume Group
  • Set new Volume as the Default VG
  • Run the Repair Filesystem
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Category: Virtualization

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Active-Active HA Cluster Solution for Windows 2012 Hyper-V Cluster

Feb 21, 2013

  • Open-E DSS V7 iSCSI Failover Active-Active Cluster step-by-step setup
  • 2 nodes Hyper-V Cluster step-by-step setup
  • Create a virtual machine
  • Testing planned and unplanned failover
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Storage Solutions how to access your iSCSI volumes without downtime when disabling Failover

Feb 12, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Quick failover configuration
  • Adding datastore to ESX
  • Configuring MPIO to be able to access data on physical IP when failover is disabled
  • Disabling failover and changing settings
  • Enabling failover
  • Disabling MPIO on ESX
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Active-Active HA Cluster Solution for Hyper-V

Jan 29, 2013

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Open-E DSS V7 iSCSI Failover Active-Active Cluster step-by-step setup
  • 2 nodes Hyper-V Cluster step-by-step setup
  • Create a virtual machine
  • Testing planned and unplanned failover
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Category: RAID Solutions

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Storage Solutions with Software RAID and Hot Spares

Jan 29, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Creating a Software RAID
  • Add a Spare disconnected drive to a S/W RAID
  • Marking a unit as Faulty
  • Remove Software RAID unit
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

How to configure LSI Syslog events and what is reported to Open-E DSS V7 event viewer

Jan 15, 2013

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Connecting to the LSI RAID with MegaRAID Storage Manager
  • Configure the Syslog categories or other specific events
  • See report in Open-E DSS V7 Event Viewer
  • Recommendation to setup the Open-E DSS V7 E-mail
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

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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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

When to use a Bond and when to use MPIO

Dec 18, 2012

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Uses for Bond mode and MPIO
  • Verifying the types of NICs
  • Setting the NICs for the respective Bond mode
  • MPIO Settings with VMware and Microsoft
  • Settings with Jumbo Frames
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Monitoring the Open-E DSS V7 with Nagios and check mk tool over Open-E DSS V7 API

Dec 11, 2012

Slawomir Nowakowski - 2nd level Technical Support Engineer

  • Installing and configuring OMD
  • Applying the small update to Open-E DSS V7
  • Enabling API in Open-E DSS V7
  • Monitoring the Open-E DSS V7
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Category: Other

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Trouble shooting tips to use before loading Open-E DSS V7

Dec 4, 2012

Todd Maxwell - Director of Technical Sales

  • Check the BIOS settings
  • Set Boot order if using the USB to install Open-E DSS V7
  • Accessing the Boot loader from the Architecture selection
  • Learning the Boot loader options when system halts at 59%