StarWind VSAN Help : StarWind Virtual SAN Installer Components

Service

iSCSI Server application. Works as Windows service providing the core functionality of iSCSI server and StarWind virtual devices.

Can be managed by means of StarWind Management Console and StarWindX integration components.

Loopback Accelerator Driver

Accelerator for iSCSI connections on the loopback interface. Significantly decreases latency times and CPU load in the case when MS iSCSI Initiator connects to StarWind iSCSI Target over the loopback interface.

Requires Windows Server 2012 and higher versions of Windows Server OS. Works as Windows Driver.

Health Monitor

Component of ProActive Support. Monitors system and reports information about abnormal states of Hardware, Operation system, StarWind virtual devices and the service itself.

Works as Windows service. Disabled by default.

Cloud Replicator for VTL

Cloud replicator service for StarWind Virtual Tape devices. Allows replicating virtual tape files to cloud storage.

Works as Windows Service. Managed by setting replication parameters for a VTL device by means of StarWind Management Console or StarWindX Integration components.

SPTD Driver

The driver provides alternative access to SPTI devices. Used by Tape Redirector virtual devices. Useful in the case when access to the physical device is locked by applications that are executed on the server.

Is not installed by default.

StarWind Management Console

Graphical user interface application for management and monitoring of StarWind Service. May be installed on any Windows machine (Windows 7 and later versions). Works with Starwind Service over TCP/IP connection.

StarWindX Integration Component Library

StarWindX is a COM-based component that allows basic management of StarWind iSCSI SAN from third-party applications.

The current version of StarWindX COM implements the following functionality:

  • Creating, removing, listing of virtual devices and targets;
  • Initiating device-specific operations like synchronization, listing existing snapshots, etc.;
  • Reading properties of existing virtual devices, targets and reading general server information, ACL and CHAP management.

StarWindX PowerShell module contains commandlets that implement the same functionality

Sample applications are provided for VC++, C#, and PowerShell.

SMI-S Agent

SMI-S Agent provides the ability to manage StarWind virtual devices and targets by means of SMI-S-compatible tools.

Software VSS Provider

StarWind VSS Provider is a component for the interaction of StarWind virtual devices with Microsoft VSS subsystem.

Hardware VSS Provider

StarWind VSS Provider is a component required for StarWind log-structured devices.

StarWind Cluster Service

Starwind Cluster Service is needed to configure VVols.