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Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^® 3-node Compute and Storage Separated Scenario with Windows Server 2016

This guide describes how to configure a 3-node compute and storage separated scenario with deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) with Windows Server 2016. Read the guide and find out all the steps required for provisioning StarWind High Availability (HA) Storage to Windows Server 2016 hosts and creating a failover cluster.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®
2-node Hyperсonverged Scenario with Windows Server 2016

StarWind Virtual SAN enables to create a fault-tolerant and high-performing storage pool for virtualization workloads. This technical paper describes how to use StarWind Virtual SAN to set up a 2-node hyperconverged scenario with Hyper-V cluster on Windows Server 2016.

Webinar: Achieve true HA with SQL Server AlwaysOn. Part I – FCIs

Published: June 5, 2018

Nowadays, database availability is a must-have for any business, be it big or small. And, you, a database admin, are to minimize the risk of data loss. That’s actually what SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances approach may come in handy. Find out from this video how to achieve true high availability with this technology, its implementation best practices, and how the entire setup benefits from StarWind Virtual SAN deployment.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^® 2-Node Stretched Hyper-V Cluster on Windows Server 2016

Building a stretched cluster promotes the availability of applications and services running in it. StarWind Virtual SAN, a native Windows hardware-agnostic VM storage solution, allows building such clusters. Learn from this technical paper how to set up a 2-node Hyper-V stretched cluster on Windows Server 2016 with StarWind Virtual SAN.

Technical Paper: VHD Set feature in Microsoft Windows Server 2016

This document is, basically, an instruction on VHD Set deployment. The main purpose of VHD Set feature is to share the virtual disk between multiple virtual machines. VHD Set becomes useful in deployment of guest clusters for SQL Server FCI, File Servers and other services where the shared storage is required.