Open-E
Enterprise Class Storage OS for EVERY BUSINESS

The Open-E Data Storage Software V6 (DSS V6) is a unified file and block storage management operating system (OS) that provides Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) functionality.

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Open-E SNMP enabled UPS

Open-E DSS V6 provides superior performance, security, and scalability at a fraction of the cost of alternative storage offerings. Advanced features of Open-E DSS V6 include Data and Volume Replication, Volume Snapshot, Automatic Failover for iSCSI Volumes, WORM and NDMP. Additionally, Open-E DSS V6 supports a wide variety of hardware RAID platforms from the industry’s leading names. The versatility of the Open-E DSS V6 also allows users to combine NAS systems with iSCSI SAN systems, and provides built-in virus protection, while enabling the connection of multiple Network Interface Controllers, including Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand. Open-E DSS V6 is easily downloaded to any hardware device for simplified access.

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)

Application delivery accelerates business
Citrix Delivery Center virtualisation helps IT react faster to business opportunities with an agile IT infrastructure:

•  Improving user productivity
•  Rapidly deploying branch offices
•  Quicker time to value for mergers and acquisitions
•  Minimised down-time with business continuity
•  Simplified regulatory compliance projects

Application delivery reduces costs
Virtualisation helps to reduce business and IT expenses by operating with greater efficiency:

•  Cutting facilities expenses with tele-working and remote working initiatives
•  Reducing labor costs with secure, productive outsourcing and off-shoring
•  Attracting and retaining key talent with flexible working alternatives
•  Simplifying desktop management to reduce IT operations costs up to 50 percent
•  Reducing datacenter facilities costs and datacenter operations costs