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StarWind Storage Hypervisor

Key benefits:
  • Advanced data protection
  • High Availability of storage data
  • Unified storage system (SAN/NAS)
  • Consolidated storage pool
  • Simple, centralized storage management
  • High rate of storage assets utilization
  • Cut down disk space requirements
  • Hardware vendor independence
  • Advanced feature-set
Today, virtualization technology has become the standard in many server rooms worldwide, thereby bringing tangible benefits, such as higher resource utilization and improved flexibility. The optimization of the storage system comes next in turn helping to improve the results of storage virtualization.

Storage hypervisor is software that carries out the virtualization of your disk storage assets as well as provides for the centralized management control of your consolidated storage resources. Storage hypervisor increases the availability of storage data, speed of processing, improves resource utilization, and overall system performance. StarWind is the Storage hypervisor that fully supports Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware and Citrix XenServer and allows for the most effective utilization of your storage estate. On the one hand, it delivers the platform for storage virtualization and, on the other hand, it provides the management console for the consolidated storage resources. StarWind supports most server operating systems, with the recommended one being

Windows Server 2008 R2. This Storage hypervisor consolidates diverse disk resources (SAS, SSD, SATA) and storage systems (SAN, NAS) and presents them to the physical and virtual servers as a single pool of storage. StarWind delivers a hardware-agnostic approach: it can be installed on any x86-x64 commodity server and used for the virtualization of most vendors’ storage arrays.

The wide range of features offered by the StarWind Storage hypervisor includes: Thin Provisioning, High Availability with Synchronous Mirroring, CDP & Snapshots, Data Deduplication, Automatic Failover, Failback with Fast Synchronization, Remote Replication, and NAS Configurator.

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.