Open-E®, Inc is a leading provider of unified file and block storage management software solutions. The Open-E Data Storage Software (DSS V6™) offers support for Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Network) functionality all in a single, easy to use storage application. Open-E DSS also provides, at no extra cost, Automatic Failover and Failback for high-availability, Remote Mirroring for disaster recovery, WORM (Write Once Read Many) support for digital archiving, and NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) support for universal backup - ensuring better data security, increased fault tolerance, and improved availability of all data, ultimately delivering better overall performance and value.

For more details about Open-E please go to: www.open-e.com

We Solve IT Open-E solutions for VMware provide the most cost effective method of implementing shared storage to enable Vsphere features such as:
 

• Virtual Server Mirroring (Vsphere Fault Tolerance)
• Vmotion Live Migration of virtual server from one physical server to another
• Auto relocation of server on hardware failure (Vsphere High Availability)
• Infiniband connectivity up to 40Gbits/s (with the right RAID configuration this can obtain 3.5 gigabytes per second disk throughput)

  Using this we have Windows 2008 Virtual Servers booting up to logon prompt in under 6 seconds.

A 4TB Open-E SAN solution on branded hardware would start at £2800

A 4TB license of Open-E to run on your own hardware is £575

The Flexibility of Open-E means you can get the most out of your existing or new hardware.


Open-E DSS V6 includes NAS and iSCSI functionality and advanced features such as:

Installable on any media: internal HDD, RAID Array, USB, SATA and IDE DOM, or any other bootable media
Enhanced Graphical User Interface
NDMP v. 4
Symantec Backup Exec backup agent (RALUS) to support versions 11, 12 and 12.5
Basic API Configuration
Improved random performance of iSCSI
Windows Server 2008 Clustering Support (persistent reservation SCSI-3)
Hardware RAID Support
Automatic Failover for iSCSI Volumes
Volume and Data Replication
Asynchronous Volume Replication Over WAN
Volume Snapshot
iSCSI Initiator / iSCSI Target
Backup Functionality
WORM (Write Once Read Many) Support
Shadow Copy of OS for System Update
Multiple Network Interface Card (NIC) Support
Network Bonding/Teaming
Task Mechanism with Scheduling
Network UPS Support
Fibre Channel Support
Multi-CPU Support
IP-SEC


Minimum Hardware Requirements:

x86 - compatible PC
1 GByte RAM
CPU (1 GHz or faster are recommended)
HDD (SATA, SAS, SCSI, ATA) / RAID / Fibre Channel / iSCSI Storage
Network Interface Card (multi-cards 1Gb/s recommended for bonding)