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    White Paper: StarWind VSAN Free

    In their usual routine, IT administrators face a considerable variety of different tasks. Finding a proper storage platform remains the most challenging one. Picking up the right solution for Test & Development, POC and backup and Disaster Recovery scenarios can become a nightmare sometimes. StarWind Virtual SAN Free is a fault-tolerant and still easy to manage software-defined storage that perfectly suits the shared storage purpose. It is managed via CLI but includes UI for monitoring.

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    White Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN®
    Meeting the strictest RPO/RTO requirements

    These days, data is a key asset for any business or organization. Companies’ IT infrastructures are built around the core principles of data protection, processing speed, and access time. Moreover, to ensure continuous business operation, it is crucial to keep data available 24/7 or have the ability to recover it in the shortest terms. This translates into such requirements as Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). To allow companies meet even the strictest RPO and RTO requirements, we offer StarWind Virtual SAN.

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    Success Story: Double Fine Productions achieved higher applications performance without compromising infrastructure management simplicity

    Double Fine Productions, a company specialized in game development, wanted to speed up its applications and streamline its environment. The company was also looking leverage cost efficient cloud storage for archival purposes. Learn from this success story how Double Fine achieved higher application performance and accelerated its backup process with StarWind solutions.

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    Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN: Set Up Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

    Advanced system security is possible due to implementation of Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP). It is a type of user authentication fully supported by StarWind. This guide provides detailed instruction on how to successfully configure CHAP permissions in StarWind Virtual SAN with such hypervisors as Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, Citrix Xen.

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    White Paper: Fault Tolerance and High Availability – White Paper

    StarWind Virtual SAN eliminates the single point of failure for storage in virtualized infrastructure by using duplication and triplication of data, caches and I/O controllers, basically “mirroring” them all between independent physically different hosts. This way, the virtual shared storage becomes fault tolerant and provides high availability to higher performance and low-cost.

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