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Highlights of Additional StarWind Features

StarWind helps you build a scalable, highly reliable and highly available IP SAN that is affordable for any organization's IT budget. Our IP SAN solution enables small- and mid-size companies benefit from enterprise-level solutions without the typical high costs of implementation and administration.

  • Synchronous Data Mirroring with Active-Active Automatic Failover and Failback: enables volume/site failover for uninterrupted operations and 24/7 business continuity.
  • Remote / Asynchronous Replication: allows storage to be replicated to a remote disaster recovery site across a WAN.
  • CDP/Snapshots - automatic or manual Microsoft VSS compatible (Volume Shadow Copy Services) snapshots, volume cloning and incremental backups with unlimited number of rollback points.
  • Auto Thin Provisioning: no need to allocate storage capacity until it's needed. Allocates only as much space as is required for data being written on that volume without predicting future capacity need.
  • Supports Shared Volumes for clustering servers. With StarWind it's possible to use an iSCSI volume as quorum disk for Microsoft Cluster.
  • StarWind integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Windows NTFS compression and encryption. SAN image files stored on NTFS partitions can be encrypted and compressed (without excessive access overhead).
  • StarWind fully supports iSCSI boot from SAN. This allows you to completely eliminate the need for dedicated hard disk drives installed on client machines.
  • StarWind is able to use Serial and Parallel ATA and SCSI, Fibre Channel, USB and FireWire storage hardware. Export an entire disk or a single file or partition on the hard disk as an iSCSI virtual disk.
  • Storage hardware (tape drives, automatic tape libraries, high-performance Blu-Ray and HD-DVD burners, DVD-ROM changers etc.) can be "networked" using StarWind.
  • Supports MPIO (Multi-Path I/O) through multiple sessions when using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator.
  • I/O read and write caching using RAM as cache to improve throughput and response time.
  • Secure IPsec encryption for secure tunneling over WAN IP connections and CHAP authentication.
  • Can be configured with single or dual controllers and RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50

See Recommended System Requirements.

Please fill out the form below to download the product. An installer link together with the license key will be sent to the e-mail address that you’ve specified. You may check the Free vs. Paid document if you are unsure about which StarWind Virtual SAN version you would like to try. Aside from this, there is a totally unrestricted NFS (Not For Sale) version of StarWind VSAN available for certain use cases. StarWind Virtual SAN for Hyper-V release notes are available here.