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White Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®

This document describes StarWind Virtual SAN as the most suitable solution for Enterprise ROBO, SMB & Edge. It's hardware- and hypervisor-agnostic, budget-friendly, and it easily outperforms your typical physical shared storage and SDS.

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White Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^® FREE vs. PAID

The document provides a detailed comparison and reveals the capabilities of two different StarWind Virtual SAN versions commercial and free.

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Webinar: The Migrating Production Data Series: Getting Ready for Migration

Published: December 12, 2019

Migrating production data may prove unexpectedly cumbersome. It's vital to remember that within an environment that should be constantly up and running, migration should happen seamlessly. If certain components aren’t prepared correctly, the end-result of migrating them can disrupt the entire IT infrastructure, leading to severe downtime or even crashes. Preparation is key.

Webinar: StarWind Command Center to the Rescue: Manage Any Hyperconverged Environment Through a Single GUI

Published: December 5, 2019

Time is money. So much time is constantly wasted on fussing through various user interfaces (UIs) while managing a hyperconverged infrastructure. Each UI is dedicated to different stats and operations. Wasted time = wasted money. StarWind knows that pain, so it developed a solution to relieve it — a single-pane-of-glass management and monitoring tool to greatly improve your HCI experience.

White Paper: Log-structured Write-Back Cache

Traditional caching strategies cannot ensure consistent performance under intense virtualized workloads. Learn from this whitepaper more about Log-structured Write-Back Cache (LSWBC), StarWind Virtual SAN feature allowing to ensure high applications performance and resiliency.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®
Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2019 (TP)
Failover Cluster Instance on Windows Server 2016

This guide describes how to configure a 2-node Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster that will host SQL Server 2019 Failover Cluster Instance (FCI). StarWind Virtual SAN is used as a shared storage "foundation" for building a highly-available Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) and ensures data safety of the entire system maintaining continuous application availability.