Database storage

Introduction

The volume of data businesses use is growing exponentially. To make this data useful for applications, it is stored in databases. A database is an organized collection of structured data, stored on a physical server and accessed by applications for business needs. High database accessibility is critical for successful business operations, necessitating mechanisms to avoid unplanned downtime.

Problem

If the physical server fails, all databases on it become unavailable, leading to significant application downtime. This is unacceptable for businesses, thus requiring a mechanism that ensures databases can tolerate physical server failures or undergo hardware maintenance without experiencing downtime.

Solution

Highly available shared storage can be connected to multiple hosts, allowing databases to migrate between physical hosts for maintenance or to failover in case of a host failure. Physical SANs are one way to address this issue.

StarWind VSAN enables the use of local storage to create a highly available storage pool, which can be used as shared storage to establish a hyperconverged database cluster.

Conclusion

StarWind VSAN is a cost-effective solution to provide high-performance shared storage for databases, minimizing both planned and unplanned downtime. It reduces the number of physical servers needed by utilizing the local storage of the hosts to create shared storage for a hyperconverged cluster.

StarWind VSAN offers shared storage to database servers, helping to mitigate downtime for mission-critical applications.