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.

• #sql cluster
• #sql server 2012
• #StarWind Virtual SAN
• #Windows Server 2012

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.

• #failover cluster
• #sql server
• #StarWind Virtual SAN

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.

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• #StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

White Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN Clustering as the key for data reliability and availability

When it comes to starting a business these days, there’s almost no chance to avoid any IT technologies alongside with it. Generally, each company, will it be a bakery, a law agency or a charity organization etc., is in touch with computers. Starting from simple desktops and applications, IT-related stuff goes all the way up to massive datacenters and complicated computing systems.

• #Clustering
• #StarWind Vitual SAN
• #Virtual Server

White Paper: 2-Way vs. 3-Way
Synchronous Mirroring Comparison

This document suggests taking a look at two-way and three-way synchronous mirroring to better understand the benefits each of them has behind.

• #mirroring
• #RAID
• #SSD

White Paper: StarWind VSAN Free

In their usual routine, IT administrators face a considerable variety of different tasks. Finding a proper storage platform remains the most challenging one. Picking up the right solution for Test & Development, POC and backup and Disaster Recovery scenarios can become a nightmare sometimes. StarWind Virtual SAN Free is a fault-tolerant and still easy to manage software-defined storage that perfectly suits the shared storage purpose. It is managed via CLI but includes UI for monitoring.

• #Hyper-V
• #VMware