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.

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.

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.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®
Enable iSER

This document describes how to enable iSER, a topnotch data transfer iSCSI extension for RDMA, in StarWind Virtual SAN environment. Enabling iSER allows increasing the speed of VM migration and data replication. Additionally, iSER provides all the advantages of the iSCSI protocol, including security and simplicity.

White Paper: Data Locality – White Paper

StarWind utilizes "data locality" in its appliances by aggregating the compute and storage resources for every virtual machine on the same physical node. This allows eliminating the "bottleneck" of slower interconnect fabrics and maximize the performance of IT infrastructure.

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Success Story: StarWind Virtual SAN delivered Ainsworth Game Technology true HA in a cost-efficient way

Ainsworth Game Technology, an American standalone progressives and linked games creator, intended to add clustering, HA, and Live Migration to its IT environment. However, the company did not have shared storage to make these plans true. Learn from this success story how StarWind Virtual SAN allowed building shared storage without breaking the company’s bank.