A pioneer in the virtualization, VMware is known to every admin who's ever worked with the virtualized environment.
VMware ESXi, its flagship product, is the next-generation bare-metal hypervisor that makes deploying virtualization
solutions look easy. Creating VMs on a physical server is the primary function of the ESXi hypervisor. If you were to
decide to utilize this hypervisor, you'd find it has the minimum configuration requirements, thereby allowing you to
start the production environment in a range of few minutes!
VMware ESXi hypervisor, along with VMware vSAN software-defined storage solution, comes in an integrated package as
VMware vSphere virtualization platform, delivering reliable and continuous performance. However, even though the
efficiency of VMware vSAN solution is out of the question, in certain cases, StarWind Virtual SAN can come off as a more
suitable alternative:
StarWind VSAN was created to grant SMB, ROBO and Edge infrastructure’s constant uptime from the get-go.
Unlike VMware vSAN, which is based on the “2 nodes + 1 witness host” configuration for deploying a failover cluster,
StarWind VSAN provides high availability with only 2 nodes without the necessity to license a witness.
SSDs are not the only options: StarWind VSAN deploys on whatever hardware you already got.
No HCLs for StarWind VSAN: it fits any configuration that meets its minimum requirements.
Cooperative and rapidly responsive StarWind support from deployment to troubleshooting
With StarWind VSAN, SMEs, ROBO & Edge can afford enjoying the benefits and performance of VMware ESXi hypervisor.
What Is
StarWind VSAN?
StarWind Virtual SAN seems to be a perfect fit for such cases because it allows creating a shared storage pool with
off-the-shelves hardware at minimal costs, bringing to the table a rich feature-packed stack as well. Not only would it
make your environment more efficient with a minimum of resources, StarWind, working on 2 nodes, can still keep your
infrastructure high available and fault-tolerant, since it keeps functionality even if one of the nodes goes off due to
failure or outage. If you need to build and maintain a virtual infrastructure without costly proprietary hardware and
need a universal storage solution, take a look!
Physical storage solutions still have a lot to offer, but many businesses neither require them nor can afford it. What
to do when your infrastructure seemingly has no other option? StarWind Virtual SAN is the answer to that question. It
gives you everything you'll need for a reasonable price, and it doesn't take a computing prodigy to run it.
Budget-Friendly
By limiting the hardware footprint accompanying traditional physical storage, StarWind VSAN allows you to double your
savings by lowering CapEx and OpEx. You can forget about additional licensing expenses as well. Naturally, as any
product of a kind, it still requires hardware for work, but the difference in price between custom hardware and
commodity one is evident enough.
Rich Features
Set
And if all that wasn't enough for you, StarWind VSAN isn't limited by just price, reliability, and flexibility. It also
offers a set of features such as server-side cache, NFS support, or Automated Storage Tiering to provide your
environment with fault tolerance, high availability, and maximum performance.
Simple in Use
Despite offering impressive performance, StarWind VSAN isn't following that scale in managing and administering. You can
run it wherever you want, and it doesn't get more simple in configuring. If you have ever been working with a
virtualized environment, you'll have no trouble running and deploying StarWind Virtual SAN.
StarWind V2V Converter
is the multi-format grandmaster of VM conversion that works with the speed of a stellar wind. Now that you’ve made sure of its undeniable advantages, you can only guess what the full range of our products has to offer. Only thing is that, with StarWind, you don’t have to guess: we always aim for the win.
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