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Value proposition
Software

Virtual SAN (vSAN)

StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) is a software that eliminates any need for physical shared storage by simply "mirroring" internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers. It's compatible with the hypervisor of your choice, be it Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere/ ESXi, Linux KVM, or Xen. StarWind vSAN is tailored for Enterprise remote offices and branch offices (ROBO), small and medium businesses (SMB) & Edge: true two-node scenario*, transparent licensing, and support brought to another level**.

Gain 99.9999% uptime and full fault tolerance thanks to this unique vSAN from the only all-flash hyperconvergence vendor, using your existing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware right now.

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*No witness is required
**ProActive Premium Support - health monitoring system that сompletely eliminates customer effort involved in identifying and troubleshooting an issue or even submitting a support case.

StarWind Virtual SAN is also available as an OEM component for your own solution.
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vSAN Benefits

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vSAN Benefits

Maximum Return on Investment (ROI)

StarWind vSAN has been designed with small
businesses’ needs and restricted IT budgets in mind.
It pulls out close to 100% of the IOPS from your
existing raw storage —no crazy expensive hardware required. Licensing is flexible and transparent without any pitfalls or feature paywalls.
Enterprise-grade product
with an SMB price tag.

Unrivaled Performance on Minimalist Terms

Virtual SAN from StarWind ensures high uptime
and fault tolerance starting with just two nodes.
You don’t need a witness if you don’t want to have
one. Your IT environment won’t skip a beat even
if you lose an entire node plus one individual
storage device, HDD or SSD. Scale up, down,
or out when and how you need it.
Cost-efficiency and unbeatable
performance hand-in-hand.

Unique and Amped Up User Experience

Operate your HCI clusters through a unified
StarWind web UI. Our engineers will assist
in migrating your existing workload to StarWind
at no extra cost! Choose ProActive Premium
Support and let us “babysit” your IT 24/7/365:
you do whatever you want, and we’ll identify and
troubleshoot any issues ourselves and let you
know what was up later.
StarWind vSAN is all about
carefree user experience.

vSAN Architecture

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vSAN Architecture

01.

Skyrocket
with Two Nodes

Our solution has been specifically designed to bring enterprise-grade features to SMBs, which do not operate corporate budgets. StarWind vSAN requires no witnesses and brings all the promised benefits in a two-node scenario already. However, if the customer decides to grow their infrastructure, they can easily scale up and out even with this small configuration.
02.

Maintain and Scale
as You Go

Even in its standard edition, StarWind provides everything it promises within the outlined capacity limitation. After it’s installed in your cluster node and connected to another one in the cloud, it provides constant uptime even without switches or any other additional equipment. Thanks to mirroring of hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers, your environment also becomes ready for any disasters.
03.

Lose 50% of Infrastructure
and Still No Downtime

StarWind vSAN doesn’t care for hardware compatibility lists and can be deployed on any commodity hardware that you already got. Its organically functioning feature set allows achieving even high availability at a minimum hardware footprint, leaving much room for flexible and smart budgeting. You gain a truly fault-tolerant virtual storage pool, which allows you to maintain or modify your infrastructure however you like while enjoying a perpetually smooth performance.

vSAN Features
from StarWind

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vSAN Features from StarWind

Synchronous Replication

vSAN immediately copies data to the second node over the network to ensure instant failover for your mission-critical applications.

High-Performance iSCSI Stack

vSAN allows getting the most out of your underlying storage over iSCSI.

Responsive Support

Includes rapidly responsive helpful 24/7/365 support and allows performing hardware maintenance on one of the nodes without any performance drops.

More Features
All of the benefits are ensured thanks to the solution's elaborate feature set that's entirely available with every license. We are constantly working to perfect StarWind vSAN to meet your growing demands. You can check its evolution in the release notes.
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What The World Says About Us

StarWind included as Niche Player for the fourth consecutive time in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for HCI Software

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StarWind
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software
4.8
278 verified reviews
96%
Recommended
reviewed April 5, 2021
“StarWind Has Worked Extremely Well For Us For Over 7 Years.”
Industry: Finance
Company size: 3b – 10b usd
01 / 10 Read more
reviewed Sep 13, 2021
StarWind is an excellent Virtual SAN solution for Vmware
Industry: Construction
Company size: <50m usd
02 / 10 Read more
reviewed June 12, 2021
Great Software. Support and help is very good.
Industry: Manufacturing
Company size: 50m - 250m usd
03 / 10 Read more
reviewed October 14, 2020
High Performance Virtualisation Without The Expensive Hardware
Industry: Education
Company size: <5,000 emp
04 / 10 Read more
reviewed March 16, 2021
Starwind Brings High Availability And Efficiency To Our Windows Environment!
Industry: Manufacturing
Company size: 3b - 10b usd
05 / 10 Read more
reviewed February 28, 2020
Complete Hyper-Converged Solution, Easy To Implement And Manage
Industry: Finance
Company size: 1b - 3b usd
07 / 10 Read more
reviewed November 14, 2019
Customer Service Top Notch
Industry: Finance
Company size: 1b - 3b usd
08 / 10 Read more
reviewed October 20, 2016
Excelent Value For Money, Easy Implementation
Industry: Manufacturing
Company size: 3b - 10b usd
09 / 10 Read more
reviewed September 1, 2021
Great Shared Storage Solution For A VMware VSphere Essentials Cluster
Industry: Services
Company size: <50m usd
10 / 10 Read more

vSAN Use Cases

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vSAN Use Cases

We are satisfied with StarWind. The support is really fantastic. Whenever any issue arises, the response is very prompt, and solution is immediate.

Srinivas Kouda, Company’s Representative
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We were able to build 2-node storage clusters based on virtualization in 19 hypermarkets without any problems and with high cost-efficiency.

Vass Sandor, IT Infrastructure Leader
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By being able to virtualize our environment with StarWind, we were able to retire some old hardware, get our services highly available, reduce power consumption and heat in our server closet.

David Gardner, Information Systems Manager
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StarWind got us off the clustered environment, which was a big help. So, I could regain control of my storage and reclaim and redistribute the space we desperately needed.

Ryan Fulton, Company’s Representative
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Price + Simplicity. StarWind vSAN offers great pricing and allows us to get work done without expensive custom hardware. It also makes getting back online quick and easy after an outage or hardware failure.

Aaron Hayes, IT Manager
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We chose StarWind Mainly because of the cost compared to other vendors. Simplicity of setup was also a major factor and I like the fact that you don’t need a vendor certified engineer to perform the installation.

John Harris, Windows System Administrator,
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
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Because of recommendations of older colleagues, with StarWind, we got a reliable storage with no additional hardware. There was a need to increase IT infrastructure performance and we saw StarWind as the most cost-effective solution.

Željko Medić, Director of IT Department
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StarWind is the best storage product I have ever used! It satisfies and exceeds requirements.

Joe Gursky, Director of IT
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