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Management: Web UI & REST API

July 26, 2024
Alex Khorolets
StarWind Solutions Architect. Alex has begun his journey as a hobbyist in the virtualization and storage sphere. He possesses extensive knowledge in networking, storage technologies, and virtualization.
StarWind Solutions Architect. Alex has begun his journey as a hobbyist in the virtualization and storage sphere. He possesses extensive knowledge in networking, storage technologies, and virtualization.

A modern web interface and REST API offer simple, effective, and customizable remote storage management.

Intro

In today’s fast-paced world, a user-friendly and visually appealing interface is essential for managing data efficiently. Even more, the remote access has become a must-have feature, allowing seamless management from anywhere. This innovative approach simplifies operations, ensuring a smooth and engaging user experience.

Problem

Struggling with a cluster storage management system that doesn’t offer a user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing interface can be quite a bind. It’s like navigating a ship without a compass; you’re likely to get lost in a sea of complex procedures and drab screens. This complexity can introduce errors and slow down operations, turning what should be a streamlined process into a bulky and time-consuming task. Quite often it requires extensive training and ongoing support, which can be costly for organizations. A clean, well-designed and easy-to-access interface is essential for ensuring smooth sailing and a positive user experience.

Solution

StarWind’s got you covered with a slick, user-friendly web-based management interface that makes handling and keeping an eye on your software-defined storage a breeze. In-built right into the StarWind Virtual SAN Controller Virtual Machine (CVM), this web interface lets you tweak and track every part of your high-availability storage setup – from rounding up drives for a RAID array to whipping up HA volumes and even rolling out the native SMB/NFS file shares.

StarWind’s web-based management interface isn’t just about functionality; it also boasts a sleek and attractive design. This makes managing your storage resources not only efficient but also a visually pleasing experience, providing intuitive interface that’s easy on the eyes.

All it takes is an internet connection and any device – whether it’s a PC or your smartphone – and you’ve got the power to manage your IT infrastructure’s storage from anywhere on the planet.

Conclusion

To eliminate any restrictions on accessing your StarWind-based infrastructure and facilitate the everyday job of IT administrators, we provide functionality that allows you to manage such an infrastructure from any distant location. Web-management interface featured in StarWind VSAN prioritizes user-friendliness and aesthetic design, coupled with the indispensable feature of remote access, managing storage resources has never been more straightforward or pleasing. This marks a significant leap forward in data management, where efficiency meets elegance, ensuring that the backbone of IT infrastructure is not only robust but also a joy to operate.

Hey! Looking to deploy a new, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective hyperconverged infrastructure?
Alex Bykovskyi
Alex BykovskyiStarWind Virtual HCI Appliance Product Manager
Well, we can help you with this one! Building a new hyperconverged environment is a breeze with StarWind Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA). It’s a complete hyperconverged infrastructure solution that combines hypervisor (vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox, or our custom version of KVM), software-defined storage (StarWind VSAN), and streamlined management tools. Interested in diving deeper into VHCA’s capabilities and features? Book your StarWind Virtual HCI Appliance demo today!