Highly available storage is one of the challenges that IT has to face all the time. StarWind VSAN is a software storage solution that is very flexible and gives us the opportunity to configure it the way you need. It has a built-in high availability (HA) so no matter if your underlying storage node fails, […]
StarWind VSAN as a truly fault-tolerant virtual storage pool
StarWind VSAN uses synchronous replication between nodes. It means that VSAN immediately copies data to the second node over the network to ensure instant failover for your mission-critical applications. StarWind VSAN can be deployed on any commodity hardware that you already have. You’ll leverage the internal disks in each host and create a shared storage […]
How to Build Your StarWind vSAN Infrastructure from Scratch and ensure that it runs at Maximum Speed
StarWind is hosting a new webinar which is certainly not to miss – Build Your StarWind Infrastructure from Scratch and Ensure That It’s Running on Maximum Speed! You’ll learn from StarWind engineers how to make sure that what you build is operating at high, see maximum, speed. Virtual infrastructure has often a bottleneck. It is about […]
Linux Based StarWind Virtual SAN Features and Details
StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) Linux version for VMware vSphere has some different features that the Windows-based version for Hyper-V. In this post we’ll have a look at some of those details. I assume that our regular readers already know StarWind VSAN as we have published many articles detailing the solution. For those of you who […]
StarWind 8 New build release
StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) new release went out a few days back and in this post, we’ll report on the details. It’s not a new major version, just a maintenance release. For those of you who do not know StarWind, I’d like to say that they have a very flexible and performant software-defined storage (SDS) […]
Log-structured Write-Back Cache (LSWBC) by StarWind – How it Works?
StarWind software is constantly working on improving its flagship product StarWind Virtual SAN. During the development cycle, they have experimented with LSFS, but finally preferred LSWBC which optimizes small random writes and is able to use RAM and an SSD pool to boost performance, and additionally eliminate completely the need for full-resync after a node […]
StarWind VSAN has a high level of customization
I don’t think that I have to re-introduce StarWind company to our readers. Their software solutions were simple but effective for many years. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are also provided by StarWind and since this year they are also present in the Magic Quadrant by Gartner. Gartner’s study says that “StarWind VSAN offers a high […]
StarWind Software Based Storage Solutions With failover and Performance-Optimized
Usually, software-based solutions avoid you to spend money on additional hardware which needs maintenance, cooling and storage space. This is no different with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) which be an example for virtualization environments running VMware, Microsoft or KVM. StarWind Software Based Storage provides failover capability and is also performance-optimized. In this post, we’ll talk […]
