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Open-E DSS V7 - the alternatives

Open-E DSS V7 is EOL from 31 October 2024. This means that you will no longer be able to purchase licences and support for it. We therefore compare possible successors and alternatives.

Feature comparison

In this table, we have compared the individual features of the storage operating systems and platforms. This gives you an overview of which functions are possible on which system. 

 

Please note, however, that it is generally not possible to switch from one system to another on a one-to-one basis. This usually requires further adjustments to the infrastructure.

Open-E DSS V7 Open-E JovianDSS StorMagic SvSAN DataCore SANsymphony (BZ-Version) PetaSAN
File System XFS ZFS ext4/xfs NTFS BlueStore/XFS
Storage Model Logical Volumes Storage Pools Storage Pools virtual Disks Storage Pools
HA cluster architecture Logical volumes replicated via Ethernet Physical drives shared between nodes Storage pool replication virtual disc replication Ceph
Caching Hardware support Native, tiered RAM and SSD or NVMe SSD and RAM (extra licence) Hardware support Journal and cache devices
Snapshots Unlimited Unlimited no, only via hypervisor Unlimited Unlimited
Protokolle iSCSI, SMB (bis v3), NFS (bis v3), FC iSCSI, SMB (bis v3), NFS (bis v3), FC iSCSI iSCSI, FC iSCSI, SMB, NFS, S3, RADOS
Software RAID ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ X
VAAI X ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Thin Provisioning X ✓ X ✓ ✓
Deduplication X ✓ X X X
Compression X ✓ X X ✓
iSCSI and NFS restricted connections ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Storage expansion without downtime ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SNMP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SMTP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
CHAP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
MPIO ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
API / SSH access ✓ ✓ X ✓ ✓
Update via ISO and reboot ✓ ✓ ✓ X X
Active-Active-Cluster ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
RDMA X ✓ X ✓ X
Auto-Tiering X X X ✓ X
Installation on bare metal ✓ ✓ X ✓ X
Hyperconverged ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Windows Active Directory (NAS function) ✓ ✓ X X ✓
LDAP (NAS function) ✓ ✓ X X ✓
Pros and cons
Open-E JovianDSS StorMagic SvSAN DataCore SANsymphony
(BZ-Version)		 PetaSAN
Advantages
Supports iSCSI, SMB, NFS, FC Very slim design Largest feature set Very favourable to free,
as only optional support licences
LDAP and Windows AD connection possible Requires very few resources Auto-Tiering LDAP and Windows AD connection possible
Caching options Gets its "own" hypervisor Caching options
Disadvantages
High HDD requirements
for special configurations		 iSCSI only Higher financial outlay in comparison No Auto-Tiering
Only possible as HCI iSCSI and FC only No software RAID for OS installation
Usable limited to 50 TB Higher hardware requirements with Ceph

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