The feature request thread!!!

[tjk]

ability to do (a)sync replication from 1 to many, however this may be difficult due to the use of drbd.

example:

mirror a volume locally for local failover (nas or iscsi), and than mirror that volume to a remote location for disaster recovery purposes. Datacore i$ pretty good at thi$ today.

thin provisioning for iscsi and nas volumes.

dedupe, all storage vendors are racing to get this feature added to their product if it doesn't exist today.

nas failover as mentioned above.

I'd like to see a clustering approach like Equallogic and lefthand, and yes, my customers are willing to pay for it so I'm willing to pay for it.

tom

[techfreakz]

I'm very impressed with the built in backup features!

How about a backup browser that allows you to catalog the backups between two dates then display the backed up shares/folders/files in a tree object, much like the object used to set ACLs and permissions on files elsewhere in Open-e.

Aditionally, incrementally backed up files since the last full backup could be highlighted in a different colour.

Best regards

AS

[techfreakz]

Also the ability to override the backup type, when specifying the schedule e.g. run incremental Mon-Friday, but run as a full backup on Sunday.

[techfreakz]

Also, being able to set an address range of "allowed IP's" rather than single IP's would be useful (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24).

Cheers

AS

[Klug]

StorageLink driver.
http://forum.open-e.com/showthread.php?t=1610

[tingshen]

is the teaming still giving problem with Hyper-V R2? I finally have a chance to set up teaming in order to catch up the min 1GB/s bandwidth from my SSDs array....setting up in progress....

[techfreakz]

For those of us that are too tight to buy a "real" hardware controller, but have bucket loads of spare hard disks around us :-)

[SeanLeyne]

Single Instance Storage (SIS) / Deduplication is a becoming a significant issue/marketing point, due to the explosion of data storage/capacity requirements.

This is especially true as the adoption of server (and coming/now desktops) virtualization is now growing into middle/lower-middle tier businesses. If you have 20 virtualized Win2008 servers. Do you really need to use 20 times the disk space to store 20 copies of the same Windows EXEs/DLLs?

A number of SAN solutions offer this feature including; MS Storage Server, Falconstor/Nexxan, NetApp and EMC.

[techfreakz]

Single Instance Storage (SIS) / Deduplication is a becoming a significant issue/marketing point, due to the explosion of data storage/capacity requirements.

This is especially true as the adoption of server (and coming/now desktops) virtualization is now growing into middle/lower-middle tier businesses. If you have 20 virtualized Win2008 servers. Do you really need to use 20 times the disk space to store 20 copies of the same Windows EXEs/DLLs?

A number of SAN solutions offer this feature including; MS Storage Server, Falconstor/Nexxan, NetApp and EMC.

Hi there, This may or may not be useful to you, but DSS v6 already has some single instance storage support as we have a NAS share that we backup to using BackupAssist's "File Replication module". This works perfectly i.e. we backup our fileserver each day to this share and although the total amount of data is about 50GB, the software uses SIS to only store the changed files and "link" to all the rest.

http://www.backupassist.com/download...ication_WP.pdf

I have found no documented mention of SIS support for DSS v6, but it appears to work...

Cheers

AS

[SeanLeyne]

Hi there, This may or may not be useful to you, but DSS v6 already has some single instance storage support as we have a NAS share that we backup to using BackupAssist's "File Replication module". This works perfectly i.e. we backup our fileserver each day to this share and although the total amount of data is about 50GB, the software uses SIS to only store the changed files and "link" to all the rest....

In this case it is BackupAssist has implemented SIS inside their application. VMWare has SIS implemented in their VDR v1.1 add-ons, which we are using.

I was referring to SIS implemented within the storage system itself, so that any data could be SIS'd to reduce the real disk footprint.