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Technical Paper: StarWind V2V Converter: Installation Guide

StarWind V2V Converter is a convenient tool allowing to convert VMs from and to any format without altering the original file. The solution dramatically simplifies the transition to new hypervisor environments and provides great flexibility for an IT infrastructure. The guide also describes how to convert VMs from VMware ESXi to Microsoft Hyper-V and vice versa. Find all the necessary setup steps on how to convert VMs from one format to another using StarWind V2V Converter in this guide.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN: Feature Configuration Guide for SQL Server 2019 Failover Cluster Instances Deployment on Microsoft Windows Server [Hyper-V]

This guide describes how to configure a 2-node Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster that will host SQL Server 2019 Failover Cluster Instance (FCI). StarWind Virtual SAN is used as a shared storage "foundation" for building a highly-available Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) and ensures data safety of the entire system maintaining continuous application availability.

Success Story: Prime Advisors built a flexible and simple IT infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN

Prime Advisors, Inc., an American investment consulting company, was looking for some more storage. Also, Prime required a shared storage provider that could be run on the existing hardware without compromising performance and flexibility. Learn from this success story how StarWind Virtual SAN become the company’s solution of choice.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®
Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2012
Failover Cluster Instance on Windows Server 2012

This guide is intended for experienced Windows system administrators, IT professionals, and the SQL Server database administrators who would like to install and configure a 2-node Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster that will host an SQL Server 2012 Failover Cluster Instance. StarWind Virtual SAN was taken as the basis for the implementation of a block-level replication in the Windows Server 2012 hosted storage that will be used for building Windows Server Failover Cluster. Find all the necessary setup steps in this guide.

Technical Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN^®
Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2014
Failover Cluster Instance
on Windows Server 2012 R2

This guide is intended for experienced Windows system administrators, IT professionals, and the SQL Server database administrators who would like to install and configure a 2-node Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster that will host an SQL Server 2014 Failover Cluster Instance. StarWind Virtual SAN is the basis for the implementation of a block-level replication in the Windows Server 2012 R2 hosted storage that will be used for building Windows Server Failover Cluster. Find all the necessary setup steps in this guide.

White Paper: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

This document describes StarWind HyperConverged Appliance as solution for ROBO, mid-sized and smaller SMB that allows to bring in quick deployment and operational simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses.