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Value proposition
Free Software

VSAN Free

In the spirit of making IT products more accessible and helping the businesses solve more tasks at less cost, we offer StarWind Virtual SAN Free. We have made this decision to show that optimization in how IT resources are used globally, is key. By sharing the benefits of VSAN Free, we hope to inspire modern companies to strive towards sustainability and business continuity in all areas of their operation.

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Under the Bonnet

VSAN Free

VSAN

Monitoring and Management

  • Monitoring via Management Console
  • Management via PowerShell CLI, VVOLs, SMI-S
  • Monitoring and management are done via a unified
    Management Console

Support

  • Self-supported or community-supported through StarWind Forums
  • Full support during pre-sale, deployment, configuration, and integration
  • Remote troubleshooting
  • Rapidly responsive support for any issues during use
  • Dedicated support engineer
Why choose less, when you
can have more?
Try 30-days Free Trial
Why choose less, when you
can have more?
Try 30-days Free Trial
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?SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE

Discovering VSAN Free

StarWind VSAN helps SMBs and ROBO remove the need to buy expensive physical shared storage but still receive the desired features due to virtualization. Thanks to an elaborate set of features, you will be able to make your performance more seamless while reducing your hardware footprint. Virtual SAN Free will not bring you all the paid Virtual SAN’s glory, but it will help tighten your data security and significantly optimize and boost your environment’s productivity.

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Licenses for Virtualization Pros

StarWind VSAN NFR
(Not for Resale) version

StarWind also readily endorses virtualization enthusiasts and willingly assists their aspirations to create innovations in this field. With this in mind, we are ready to provide students, trainers, and other relevant professionals with a single, individual, stipulated, free license for StarWind Virtual SAN. Find out who can apply and what the terms are here.

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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
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Success Stories

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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