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StarWind Presents Hardware-less VM Storage for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and VMware vSphere 5.5 - StarWind V8 Release Candidate
Brand new StarWind V8! Scalable to an unlimited number of nodes, optimized for flash as the primary storage, with its own LSFS and upgraded asynchronous replication.| Tweet |
Wakefield, MA – March 4, 2014 - StarWind Software Inc., leading provider of Hardware-less VM Storage used by over 30,000 customers worldwide, has today made available for download the latest Release Candidate (RC) of StarWind V8. The RC offers three products that share a common engine: StarWind SAN (formerly StarWind iSCSI SAN&NAS), StarWind Virtual SAN (formerly Native SAN) and StarWind VSA. The new StarWind V8 builds on best practice and long experience in delivering SAN software, and offers an advanced fault-tolerant and high-performance shared storage solution that is affordable and cuts set up costs. General availability is expected in Q2 2014.
StarWind SAN, the flagship product, runs on commodity servers’ hardware and converts them into high-performance, fault-tolerant SAN at a fraction of the cost and complexity associated with traditional SAN-based storage infrastructures. With its integrated VSA builder and scale-out architecture, StarWind SAN became the first solution running on Windows that creates clusters of multiple hypervisor hosts without separate physical shared storage (unlike SAS (JBOD), FC or iSCSI). With this release, StarWind supports the latest versions of both VMware and Microsoft platforms.
StarWind virtual SAN (Virtual SAN) is a leading Hardware-less VM Storage for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0. The functionality and architecture of this software is similar to VMware VSAN. It runs inside parent partitions of hypervisor hosts and turns their directly attached storage (DAS) into fault-tolerant SAN. StarWind VSA follows the VMware VSA concept also, and operates inside a VM on the ESXi host, creating a fault-tolerant shared storage of the hypervisor resources.
StarWind V8 RC presents high-performance caching that allows affordable MLC SSDs to be used as level-2 flash cache and fast RAM to be used as level-1 cache. StarWind utilizes solid-state disks / flash cards as the primary storage with a dedicated flash-aware Log-Structured File System (LSFS).
Another major advantage over multiple virtual storage solutions is built-in asynchronous WAN-replication, which ensures effective disaster recovery. StarWind’s support of WAN-acceleration technologies also enables data replication over slow and cheap connections.
StarWind V8 RC includes a set of powerful experimental features including: LSFS, which eliminates the I/O blender effect; synchronous replication for clustered LSFS devices; and in-memory operation, which creates a HA cluster with one node running on RAM-disk.
"The storage market is developing rapidly and it’s very important for us to stay up-to-date to meet ever-changing business needs in storage and performance," said Anton Kolomyeytsev, CTO and Chief Architect of StarWind Software, Inc. "With the release of StarWind V8, we are offering proven and efficient scale-out storage solutions that overcome the latest IT challenges."
Sign up for our public beta-testing program and try new features of StarWind V8 RC, the true Hardware-less VM Storage today!
About StarWind Software Inc.
StarWind Software provides storage virtualization solutions to customers in over 100 countries. The StarWind Hardware-less VM Storage solution delivers the benefits of high-cost hardware-based Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, but at a much lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). StarWind's flagship iSCSI SAN software solution allows any industry-standard server to deliver fault-tolerant and highly available storage. StarWind fully supports virtual environments, including VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer and Linux.
Since 2003, StarWind has pioneered the iSCSI SAN software industry and is the solution of choice for over 30,000 customers worldwide in more than 100 countries and from small and midsize companies to governments and Fortune 1000 companies.
For more information on StarWind Software Inc., visit: www.starwindsoftware.com
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