Open-E DSS Replication

[amscanada]

I have a senario and would like to see if Open-E can do this, We have our Primary SAN and we would like to replicate it to a 2nd San onsite in the event we have a harware problem. In the near future we would like to have a DR site and i would like to replicate out to a server in the DR. Can this dual replication take place and what would the setup look like?

[To-M]

Currently this will work with a VPN connection in a 1 to 1 replication relationship, not many (Source servers) to 1 (Destination server), though we are looking to have this feature available in future releases.

So Source is connected to Destination using a VPN connection.

[Robotbeat]

We have a set up at one of our customers with 2 open-e iSCSI boxes (one replicating to the other) that are then mounted on a red hat server. The mounted volumes are then rsynced (i.e. file/data replication) to another box (a NAS open-e box), which is then rsynced to an off-site box over the internet. So, you could do it that way.

[amscanada]

So in you example abox the Red Hat host server rsynced the attched iSCSI volumes to a Open-E NAS box, is that correct?

[Robotbeat]

That is correct. Also, the main iscsi open-e box was also (block-level) replicated to another open-e iscsi box through a point-to-point connection between the two iscsi boxes. (In other words, this block-level replication was accomplished without the intervention of the red-hat server.)

[amscanada]

Right, that looks like what we may end up doing at this time. Thanks for the information.

[amscanada]

Hey Tom,

I came up with one new question. Does replication only work between 2 Open-E boxes or can I mount any iSCSI target in Open-E and replicate to that LUN?