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Data Protection: Automated Self-Healing

July 17, 2024
Ivan Ischenko
StarWind Pre-Sales Team Lead. Ivan has a deep knowledge of virtualization, strong background in storage technologies, and solution architecture.
StarWind Pre-Sales Team Lead. Ivan has a deep knowledge of virtualization, strong background in storage technologies, and solution architecture.

ZFS self-healing, AI telemetry, and “call home” features enable the system to run with near-complete autonomy. 

Intro 

Software or hardware issues have always been and always will be a part of any IT infrastructure. And while you can increase the sustainability of such situations by implementing HA in general, the cluster may still go down and not restore its functionality automatically. 

Problem  

Many businesses have already implemented many layers of sustainability to survive failed software, failed hardware, or the absence of power for some time. However, not all the solutions that are implemented for such behaviors can properly self-restore after disaster scenarios, and human intervention is usually required to restore the functionality of IT infrastructure. 

This creates a problem when disaster happens out of hours and infrastructure is not restored before the new business day. An IT staff is forced to survey IT infrastructure 24/7 and be ready to intervene in order to restore everything in a timely manner. 

Especially in the storage area, where sudden power outage, can damage a filesystem, disrupt HA mechanism restoration that in result will lead to problems with the applications running on top of HA storage and HA functionality itself. 

Solution 

StarWind VSAN is equipped with an intelligent self-healing mechanism that makes sure that upon restoration of power, the node with the most recent data will continue serve its clients as well as making sure that other node(s) are in the sync with the most recent data. 

Additionally, you can configure StarWind VSAN to work with ZFS. A widely known resilient and data integrity focused file system to boost data resiliency. 

Also, you can choose to go with our highest level of support which is ProActive Premium Support (included in VHCA and HCA offerings), which ensures even higher reliability of your cluster and our automated AI-powered system will monitor your cluster 24/7/365 for any issues that may arise. 

Conclusion 

StarWind products allows you to be protected from software, hardware failures as well as properly restore its functionality in the case of disasters with minimal to none human intervention. 

Inspired by Ivan Ischenko’s success? Want to improve business continuity for your business-critical apps and services?
Dmytro Malynka StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager
We’ve got you covered! StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) is specifically designed to provide highly-available shared storage for Hyper-V, vSphere, and KVM clusters. With StarWind VSAN, simplicity is key: utilize the local disks of your hypervisor hosts and create shared HA storage for your VMs. Interested in learning more? Book a short StarWind VSAN demo now and see it in action!