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Great news: VMware Certification Passed

We are happy to announce that starting from today StarWind Software is a VMware Certified Partner!

StarWind iSCSI SAN software has successfully passed all the laboratory tests and has met all the interoperability criteria required by VMware.
VMware Certified

This certification assures our customers that StarWind solution is officially compatible with VMware virtualization products and guarantees full VMware technical support for any VMware infrastructure built using StarWind iSCSI SAN.


StarWind Free Version is HERE!

StarWind is proud to announce its Free Edition of StarWind iSCSI SAN to eliminate vendor lock-in when selecting SAN hardware, reducing the need to overpay for disks, controller hardware and software licensing. The StarWind Free Edition will further help reduce IT costs, improve Data Availability and ensure Business Continuity.

StarWind Free iSCSI SAN offers a unique set of features, including:
  • Data Deduplication - fully supported, variable block size.
  • Unlimited storage capacity & unlimited number of supported concurrent iSCSI connections.
  • Full Production use is allowed.
  • Caching - a multi-level cache mechanism can use gigabytes of RAM and converts it into extremely fast level 1 write-back or write-through cache.
  • Continuous Data Protection and Snapshots that are completely compatible with VSS (Volume Snapshot Services).
  • iSCSI boot is fully supported with iSCSI boot capable NIC.

Download StarWind Free Learn more and use StarWind Free in a production environment without any financial hurdles!
StarWind 5.6 FREE iSCSI SAN is Here!

* Please note, that StarWind Free Edition provides you with a limited set of features, while StarWind 30-day Trial includes all functionality of StarWind Enterprise HA Unlimited and it is highly recommended for evaluation purposes.

Expert Webinar: Best Practices in Enterprise Storage Virtualization and Backup

Denny Cherry, Microsoft MVP in SQL Server Free Live Webinar, Tuesday, May 24

During this session, Denny Cherry will explain how Active-Active High Availability simplifies data protection solutions and the importance of Deduplication in your storage virtualization and backup strategy.

Register now to learn about these topics and more:

  • Use Active-Active High Availability to simplify storage management and increase continuous data and application availability.
  • Benefits and features of High Availability Storage for server failover clustering, eliminating a single point of failure.
  • Deduplication - reduce data storage costs by eliminating duplicated blocks of data.

IDC's Virtualisation and Cloud Conference

We are delighted to inform you that we are sponsoring IDC's Virtualisation and Cloud Conference, which is being held at the Hotel Russell, London on May 24th, 2011.

IDC's Virtualisation and Cloud Conference

Please fill out the form below to download the product. An installer link together with the license key will be sent to the e-mail address that you’ve specified. You may check the Free vs. Paid document if you are unsure about which StarWind Virtual SAN version you would like to try. Aside from this, there is a totally unrestricted NFS (Not For Sale) version of StarWind VSAN available for certain use cases. StarWind Virtual SAN for Hyper-V release notes are available here.