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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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.

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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.

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Success Story: Tipton Community School Corporation built a rock-solid backup environment with StarWind vSAN

The company was looking for a cost-effective solution for maintaining off-site backups. NetVault Backup which was used prior to StarWind Virtual SAN deployment could not provide that option.StarWind Virtual SAN enabled the company to store backups off-site in a cost-efficient way.Being both hardware-agnostic and capable of presenting the storage via iSCSI, the solution fitted the company’s needs perfectly within a limited budget.

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White Paper: StarWind Stretched Clustering Support

The concept of a stretched cluster itself is not new. Yet, the existing solutions featuring active-passive replication can hardly be considered efficient and fault-tolerant due to leaving only half of the available resources for applications while another half remains on standby. Learn from this whitepaper how StarWind Stretched Clustering accomplishes these challenges with active-active replication.

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