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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.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^® 2-node Compute and Storage Separated Scenario with Windows Server 2016

This guide describes how to configure a 2-node compute and storage separated scenario with deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) for Microsoft Hyper-V in 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 Compute and Storage Separated Scenario with Windows Server 2012 R2

This guide describes how to configure a 2-node compute and storage separated scenario with deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) for Microsoft Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Read the guide and find out all the steps required for provisioning StarWind High Availability (HA) Storage to Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts and creating a failover cluster.

White Paper: Fault Tolerance and High Availability

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^® 2-node Hyperconverged Scenario with VMware vSphere 6.0

VMware vSphere requires shared storage to ensure data safety, smooth virtual machines migration, and build a fault-tolerant IT environment. StarWind Virtual SAN, in its turn, allows turning the local storage into the shared one. Learn from this technical paper how to set up a hyperconverged 2-node vSphere cluster with StarWind Virtual SAN.

Technical Paper: Installing and Configuring a SQL Server Failover Clustered Instance on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

This guide provides step-by-step guidance for configuring the SQL cluster basing on the StarWind Fault Tolerant storage in the Cloud environment using the Azure as the platform. It provides the detailed guidance and basic best practices for configuring previously mentioned environment.