SAN & NAS Solutions   

As an integral part of our infrastructure, Open-E, Inc.'s Data Storage Software V6 (DSS V6) helps power our Internet based products and services. We are extremely satisfied with the features and performance we receive from our Open-E's DSS V6 based SAN and are pleased to offer Open-E's products to our customers. Additional details are included below, or please contact us for more details or to tailor a DSS V6 solution to suit your needs.

Open-E, Inc. is a pioneering leader and developer of storage software. The company is known for its flagship product, Open-E Data Storage Software V6 (DSS V6). DSS V6 is a custom operating system for file and block storage management that supports iSCSI, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel. DSS V6 also provides Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) support for universal backup, automatic failover and failback for high-availability (HA), remote mirroring for disaster recovery, and Write Once Read Many (WORM) support for digital archiving. Open-E's mission is simple: to provide the best software in its class and maintain a competitive edge in the market in each area, all for the benefit of our customers.

DSS V6 provides superior performance and scalability at a reduced cost compared to alternative storage offerings. By supporting a variety of hardware RAID cards, multiple network interfaces, and Intel based servers, users may offer NAS and iSCSI SAN functionality all in the same system! Advanced implementations using 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand are also easily supported.

Features of Open-E DSS V6 include:

• Advanced Graphical User Interface
• iSCSI Performance Improvements (SCST implementation)
• Suport for SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations (for Windows Server 2008 Clustering)
• Hardware RAID
• Multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs)
• 10 Gigabit NICs
• iSCSI Initiator and Target
• iSCSI Volume Automatic Failover
• Fibre Channel
• InfiniBand
• Network Bonding / Teaming
• UPS monitoring vai network or USB/Serial connection
• Multiprocessor Support (multiple cores or multiple CPUs)
• Volume and Data Replication
• Volume snapshot
• Write Once, Read Many (WORM)
• NDMP 3.0
• Symantec Backup Exec backup agent (for versions 11, 12 and 12.5)
• Task Scheduling
• API for Basic Configuration

Please contact SelectNet to help you tailor a DSS V6 solution to suit your needs.