It has been a while since I haven’t deployed a StarWind VSAN appliance in the lab. The latest version has new UI which is much easier to configure the solution. The dashboard of the individual appliance allows you to add/remove and configure individual nodes participating in the cluster. While the over all deployment has not […]
StarWind VSAN – FREE vs Paid options and some good scenarios for ROBO deployments on alternative hypervisors
Cost-effective solutions, with high availability and performance are likely very popular. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a software-defined storage solution designed to eliminate the need for physical shared storage by mirroring internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers. This technology provides a fault-tolerant, high-performing storage pool tailored for virtualization workloads. Let’s delve into the technology […]
Exploring StarWind VSAN: High Availability, Cost Savings, and Performance
Today, businesses are constantly seeking solutions that offer high availability (HA), cost savings, and exceptional performance. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a software-defined storage solution that addresses these needs by eliminating the requirement for physical shared storage. Let’s dive into the key features and benefits of StarWind VSAN, and explore the hypervisor platforms it supports. […]
5 Easy Steps to be more resilient with Two Hosts only – StarWind VSAN
In small environments usually with an “All-in-one” server or with Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) locations, the question of resiliency often comes. What if my server loses a hard drive (SSD drive) or a whole RAID card? What if my CPU burns or what if my Power Supply Unit (PSU) dies? Anything can happen. Even […]
Admin’s Ultimate Goal – Stay Resilient with StarWind’s VSAN with only a minimum number of pieces of hardware
Every admin is trying to stay resilient with hardware within their data center. Whether you’re a data center admin or an admin of a small IT shop, non-gov organization or foundation. You want to be able to tolerate the possible failure of the hardware you’re using. In order to do that, you’re basically making your […]
StarWind SAN VSAN can be Two-way or Three-way setup
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) […]