Web-based Graphical User Interface - The powerful and convenient Web-based GUI (Graphical User Interface) of the Open-E DSS software makes remote management of the NAS server a simple task. By using a web-browser, the server can be easily managed from anywhere in the network.
Secured Administration Access -The Open-E DSS server can be accessed and configured by the web-based, password-protected GUI over Secured Administration Access (SSL - Secure Socket Layer)
The Open-E DSS can also be managed by using the console tools. For security reasons some advanced and critical administrator tasks like, removing and restoring volumes, checking and repairing the file system, can only be managed from the console. From the console tools, the NAS server can monitor the status of the network, installed drivers and hardware, memory usage and others. Tuning Tools -This option is for advanced administrators. Tuning tools allows increase Open-E server performance. Using this tool you have possibility of enhancing disk, network, file system or services settings.
The DSS software support remote access of the console tools, enabling the management of the server by the console tools from anywhere in the network.
Administrators can be assigned different rights. The Open-E DSS supports three levels: Full Access, Maintenance and Administration.
Thanks to this feature update downtime is reduced. With the New Update System it’s possible to reboot from old system
By using the support of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) the process of assigning IP addresses in a network can be centrally managed and automated.
Multiple Network Interface Card (NIC) Support - Open-E iSCSI Enterprise supports the use of two or more network cards to access separate sub-networks. It also allows users to select the services to be enabled on a specified NIC.
Adapter Fault Tolerance assures greater reliability by providing a secondary network adapter which automatically takes over if the primary network adapter fails. - Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) enhances data throughput by automatically routing data through alternative paths as the application changes.
With Open-E software you can use proxy server for Internet connections.
The Open-E DSS supports the Secure Internet Protocol (IPsec). This protocol has been developed to secure data transmitted across a network, preventing confidential and personal information being intercepted or modified.
The Open-E DSS supports the frame sizes (e.g. packets) larger than 1500 bytes. This function increases Ethernet networking throughput and reduces the CPU utilisation of large file transfers.
Open-E DSS supports hardware iSCSI Initiators and has a software iSCSI Initiator for easily expanding the storage capacity of the NAS system. New units and logical volumes can be added by connecting an iSCSI storage system to the NAS.
The Open-E DSS includes S.M.A.R.T.(Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) for detecting and reporting the status of the HDDs to anticipate on failures.
Support for over 2TB physical and logical volumes - With Open-E DSS you will be able to build Logical Volumes greater than 2TB. As well, use physical volumes (e.g. RAID units) greater than 2TB.
Multiple Snapshot with the scheduling function - Open-E DSS supports Multiple Snapshot with Scheduling to create snapshots at predefined points in time (e.g. Automatically every hour).
Logical volume groups allow storage administrators to create logical storage pools that span multiple physical disk drives. With its support of multiple logical volume groups, Open-E DSS makes it easier to meet the changing needs of users and applications while making the maximum use of available physical disk space.
Online logical volume expansion allows administrators to change the size of storage volumes as needed without having to restart the application, recreate the volume, and back up and restore the data to the volume.
This feature supports a RAID controllers capability to increase the size of existing units without removing your data.
The Open-E software allows you to monitor hardware status using your motherboards sensors. This information can be: temperatures, voltages and/or fan speeds.
SNMP is a shortcut of Simple Network Management Protocol. Protocol allowing you to observe Servers performance remotely using encrypted transmission (v3) or non-encrypted one (v2).
Open-E DSS can be configured to send email alerts to the system administrator in case of problems with the server
For technical support and troubleshooting purposes, the Open-E log file is an efficient instrument in analysing and solving technical issues.
The Open-E DSS supports up to 32 CPUs to concurrently execute the server services. This increases the potential I/O throughput of the disk server and makes it suitable for heavy duty data requirements.
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) can be attached to Open-E DSS through a standard serial port, and it provides safe shutdown in case of power failure.
Open-E DSS supports ADS (Windows Active Directory), PDC (Primary Domain Controller), LDAP(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and ADS & NIS (Network Information Service) User-/Group ID Synchronization to leverage information about users, groups, systems and other resources stored in the Active Directory. The support of Access Control List (ACL) ensures that access rights of users are automatically taken over from the Domain.
The NIS directory service protocol enables the distribution of system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a computer network. Open-E DSS supports NIS for easier and consistent access of information stored on any other Open-E DSS server using NIS.
The support for journaling makes the file system more reliable and allows easier, faster recovery from unexpected shutdowns.
Users with large disk requirements can be constrained either by assigning them a dedicated share or by restricting their individual usage through individual user quotas or to assign a quota on a group to which the user belongs.
Open-E DSS has an integrated Antivirus software tool for scanning shares on viruses at predefined points in time. The Virus Definition Database can be updated and is stored on the DSS device.
Open-E DSS backup agents help administrators to back up NAS servers with backup software from Veritas, Dantz, CA BrightStor ARCserve. Using the backup agents, you can administer complete data protection for all data stored on the server. This improves data transfer and provides network security, task monitoring, real-time directory browsing, and cross-platform backup support. Other backup software can do the backup and restore over supported file protocols.
NAS Data Replication allows replication across LAN/WAN to remote FortuNAS.
Open-E DSS supports the file based protocols CIFS (Common Internet File System)/SMB (Server Message Block), NFS (Network File System), FTP (File Transfer Protocol), Secure FTP and Apple Talk enabling Windows, Linux, Unix and MacIntosh clients to share data on the same NAS server.
The DSS includes LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) database which allows you storing users and groups. This database can be use by the other Open-E servers.
Open-E DSS allows to set up range of IP addresses which have the access to targets.
Thanks to this feature you can easy manage users that will have access to the targets. You can create, edit and remove existing CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) users.
The Open-E DSS allows set multiple connections to one target increasing performance and reliability.
With Open-E DSS software your data will be save thanks to volume replication. It creates exact copy of source volume in real time, this means that when on one volume data is lost then data on second volume still exists.
Task Mechanism with Scheduling - Unified task mechanism with scheduling for data replication, volume replication, backup and snapshot. This way management of all the tasks is a lot easier and convenient (handy). You can set a time when a task will be activated, one task can have many schedules.
Tape drive emulation on share or Dynamic Volume (e.g. dynamically attached hard drive), backup for tape drives is the same as backup on virtual tapes.
Thanks to this feature you can make backup with use of tape drive libraries. Call for models supported.
This function allow you to set time after the same tape can be rewritten for new backup.
Internal Database includes backup history, thanks to this feature you can maintain all backed up files.
Swap is used to store memory areas on hard drives instead of RAM. Operating systems dumps memory area to swap when it was not in use for a long time and there is need to allocate some additional memory.
With this function you can easily store / restore the some settings (e. g. Server setup, Network setup, Administrator setup, UPS setup, target settings)
You can see all the connections to the targets by sessions and using additional maintenance function kill selected sessions.
