Software
Starwind 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 using your existing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware right now.
**ProActive Premium Support – health monitoring system that completely eliminates customer effort involved in identifying and troubleshooting an issue or even submitting a support case.
Presently, the majority of hypervisors come with built-in software-defined storage solutions. We believe that there is a selection of customers that are underserved by that imposed standard offer.
Pricing
Per-core licensing. Available only with Windows Server Datacenter license
High initial pricing with licensing sold per CPU and socket when compared to Starwind VSAN for vSphere
Per-node licensing, with a special ROBO licensing plan (affordable) that depends on the quantity of locations that will have VSAN installed
Performance
60% of raw perf. Solution built for disk initially
15% of raw perf. HDD-oriented solution
90% of raw perf. Built for fast SSD- and NVMe-driven environments
(link to our record)
Features
All intended features are available
Next-tier licenses unlock better features
Grants access to all of the features from the get-go
Support
Per-case. Available in the Enterprise agreement
Per-case. Available on public forums. Enterprise agreement
Includes 24/7/365 rapidly responsive support, and customers can opt for ProActive Premium Support for instant response and infrastructure “babysitting”
Management
Complicated operation that requires highly educated and skilled staff
Demands educated personnel to deploy and manage. Management tool is sold separately
Can be easily managed your virtualisation admins who can monitor and operate everything via the built-in StarWind Management Console
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 Nodes and Still
Experience 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.
StarWind Virtual SAN is able to grant all the above-mentioned benefits thanks to a wide feature set.
You can find them in the list below, and all of them are immediately available with any StarWind VSAN edition that you purchase.
StarWind gets praise for its solution’s high level of customisation in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for HCI
Synchronous Replication and High Availability
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 and Maintenance Mode
Includes rapidly responsive helpful 24/7/365 support and allows performing hardware maintenance on one of the nodes without any performance drops.
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