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Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®
Monitoring Environment with Swordfish

This document provides a step-by-step guidance describing how to work with StarWind Virtual SAN using StarWind Swordfish plugin. The paper will help you configure the StarWind Cluster Service and HA Datastore, as well as will describe how to communicate with StarWind using Swordfish.

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.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®
Providing HA storage repositories for XenServer 6.5

Traditionally XenServer Pool requires a shared storage to guarantee data safety, allow virtual machines migration, enable continuous application availability and eliminate any single point of failure within an IT environment. This technical paper is intended for experienced XenServer and Windows system administrators and IT professionals who would like to add StarWind shared storage to XenServer.

Technical Paper: Creating Highly Available device using Node Majority Failover Strategy

The simultaneous connection loss between nodes may cause “split brain” scenario, the state when nodes proceed read and write requests independently from each other. This incoordination causes data corruption after connection resumption. Setting up the failover strategy helps avoid the issue. This technical paper describes setting up an HA device using the Node Majority Failover Strategy with Witness Node on StarWind Virtual SAN as a storage provider.

Webinar: Manage your Azure Hybrid Cloud Workloads with 5nine and StarWind

Published: December 27, 2017

This webinar is dedicated to a joint solution from StarWind and 5nine – StarWind Hybrid Cloud. The solution brings true hybrid cloud functionality to the existing Hyper-V infrastructure by extending it to the Azure public cloud. It is simple to deploy, requires no additional hardware and provides simple administration thanks to 5nine Manager.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN Configuring HA shared storage for Scale-Out File Server in Windows Server 2012 R2

Scale-Out File Server allows keeping server application data on the file shares and makes them continuously accessible for end users. This guide provides detailed instructions on configuring Highly Available Shared Storage for Scale-Out File Server in Windows Server 2012 R2 with StarWind Virtual SAN as a storage provider.