Atlanta, Georgia; Munich, Germany - October 30, 2013: Storage software developer Open-E announced the new update "up11 build8826" for its product Open-E DSS V7. Users can now download the update from the company's website and benefit from significant improvements including new and updated features.
With this release Open-E's research, development and QA teams focused especially on providing the perfect high availability storage cluster for virtualization, optimizing the Hyper-V Cluster, VMware and Citrix support in the software. Code refactoring and optimization of the iSCSI Target were the key to this essential improvement, especially the support for persistent reservation which is required by Microsoft Hyper-V clusters.
In addition to this, a big number of drivers have been included in the upgrade. Now supported are the Series 7 Adaptec RAID controllers with the new RAID management technology MaxView, Intel Gigabit Ethernet i210/i211 controllers and Areca ARC-12x4 adapters. Also, the Web GUI of the software is now available in Japanese, and the log mechanism has been extended for a more detailed process analysis. Regarding updated functionalities, Open-E DSS V7 now supports all important network interface controllers by Intel and Emulex, as well as RAID controllers, such as LSI MegaRAID and LSI NYTRO MegaRAID.
"The new update of Open-E DSS V7 supports a lot more relevant hardware components and makes our software even more user-friendly," states Krzysztof Franek, CEO and president of Open-E. "Additionally, users can now expect much better stability and failure resistance of the iSCSI Target and iSCSI Failover Cluster."
The update is available at http://www.open-e.com/download/