Feature: Data Reduction: Dedup and Compression

PUBLISHED/UPDATED: July 14th, 2024

...4 KB block size for optimal effectiveness and deduplication ratios. This deduplication is followed by optional compression of data blocks. Consequently, StarWind VSAN reduces storage costs while maintaining high performance....

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Feature: Infrastructure: Commodity Hardware

PUBLISHED/UPDATED: July 14th, 2024

...VSAN allows you to reuse existing hardware, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) and avoiding vendor lock-in. This flexibility enables you to scale as needed and use the enterprise-grade...

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Feature: Architecture: Controller Virtual Machine (CVM)

PUBLISHED/UPDATED: July 14th, 2024

...This approach allows storage services to run as a Linux VM, ensuring easy integration with various hypervisors. Intro: You can deploy StarWind VSAN as a prebuilt Linux VM, functioning...

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Feature: Performance: Rapid Recovery

PUBLISHED/UPDATED: July 13th, 2024

...applications and services uptime, even during the synchronization process, and minimize the risks of downtime, StarWind VSAN allows storing synchronization journals on separate persistent storage. In this scenario, StarWind will...

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Feature: Block: iSCSI

PUBLISHED/UPDATED: July 13th, 2024

...and user-friendly block-level transport protocol that allows the SCSI protocol to be transmitted over a TCP/IP network. StarWind VSAN provides iSCSI storage to any industry-standard hypervisor or applications. It can...

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Use Case: Highly Available (HA) file server

PUBLISHED/UPDATED: July 11th, 2024

...StarWind VSAN simplifies the creation of a file server infrastructure, offering versatile Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) file servers tailored to meet the diverse data requirements...

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