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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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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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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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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