Software Virtual SAN (VSAN) StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a software that eliminates any need for physical shared storage by simply "mirroring" internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers. It's compatible with the hypervisor of your choice, be it Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere/ ESXi, Linux KVM, or Xen. StarWind VSAN is tailored for Enterprise remote offices and branch offices (ROBO), small and medium businesses (SMB) & Edge: true two-node scenario*, transparent licensing, and support brought to another level**. Gain 99.9999% uptime and full fault tolerance thanks to this unique VSAN from the only all-flash hyperconvergence vendor, using your existing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware right now. Don’t overthink —Download VSAN Get Pricing *No witness is required **ProActive Premium Support - health monitoring system that сompletely eliminates customer effort involved in identifying and troubleshooting an issue or even submitting a support case. StarWind Virtual SAN is also available as an OEM component for your own solution. Speed up your time to market, deliver better customer lifetime value, and gain a competitive edge. We're here to help! Our dedicated OEM team will help you design a solution that exceeds your expectations. Learn More Maximum Return on Investment (ROI) StarWind VSAN has been designed with small businesses’ needs and restricted IT budgets in mind. It pulls out close to 100% of the IOPS from your existing raw storage —no crazy expensive hardware required. Licensing is flexible and transparent without any pitfalls or feature paywalls. Enterprise-grade product with an SMB price tag. Unrivaled Performance on Minimalist Terms Virtual SAN from StarWind ensures high uptime and fault tolerance starting with just two nodes. You don’t need a witness if you don’t want to have one. Your IT environment won’t skip a beat even if you lose an entire node plus one individual storage device, HDD or SSD. Scale up, down, or out when and how you need it. Cost-efficiency and unbeatable performance hand-in-hand. Unique and Amped Up User Experience Operate your HCI clusters through a unified StarWind web UI. Our engineers will assist in migrating your existing workload to StarWind at no extra cost! Choose ProActive Premium Support and let us “babysit” your IT 24/7/365: you do whatever you want, and we’ll identify and troubleshoot any issues ourselves and let you know what was up later. StarWind VSAN is all about carefree user experience. Microsoft S2D VMWare vSAN Pricing Per-core licensing. Available only with Windows Server Datacenter license High initial pricing with licensing sold per CPU and socket Performance 60% of raw perf. Solution built for disk initially 15% of raw perf. HDD-oriented solution Features All intended features are available Next-tier licenses unlock better features Support Per-case. Available in the Enterprise agreement Per-case. Available on public forums. Enterprise agreement Management Complicated operation that requires highly educated and skilled staff Demands educated personnel to deploy and manage. Management tool is sold separetly StarWind VSAN Per-node licensing, with a special ROBO licensing plan (affordable) that depends on the quantity of locations that will have VSAN installed 90% of raw perf. Built for fast SSD- and NVMe-driven environments (link to our record) Grants access to all of the features from the get-go Includes 24/7/365 rapidly responsive support, and customers can opt for ProActive Premium Support for instant response and infrastructure "babysitting" Can be easily managed by existing virtualization admins who can monitor and operate everything via the built-in StarWind Management Console Having second thoughts? We got all the answers you need Get White Paper 01. Skyrocket with Two Nodes Our solution has been specifically designed to bring enterprise-grade features to SMBs, which do not operate corporate budgets. StarWind VSAN requires no witnesses and brings all the promised benefits in a two-node scenario already. However, if the customer decides to grow their infrastructure, they can easily scale up and out even with this small configuration. 02. Maintain and Scale as You Go Even in its standard edition, StarWind provides everything it promises within the outlined capacity limitation. After it’s installed in your cluster node and connected to another one in the cloud, it provides constant uptime even without switches or any other additional equipment. Thanks to mirroring of hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers, your environment also becomes ready for any disasters. 03. Lose 50% of Infrastructure and Still No Downtime StarWind VSAN doesn’t care for hardware compatibility lists and can be deployed on any commodity hardware that you already got. Its organically functioning feature set allows achieving even high availability at a minimum hardware footprint, leaving much room for flexible and smart budgeting. You gain a truly fault-tolerant virtual storage pool, which allows you to maintain or modify your infrastructure however you like while enjoying a perpetually smooth performance. Synchronous Replication VSAN immediately copies data to the second node over the network to ensure instant failover for your mission-critical applications. High-Performance iSCSI Stack VSAN allows getting the most out of your underlying storage over iSCSI. Responsive Support Includes rapidly responsive helpful 24/7/365 support and allows performing hardware maintenance on one of the nodes without any performance drops. All of the benefits are ensured thanks to the solution's elaborate feature set that's entirely available with every license. We are constantly working to perfect StarWind VSAN to meet your growing demands. You can check its evolution in the release notes. More Features StarWind included as Niche Player for the third consecutive time in 2020 Magic Quadrant for HCI Get Report StarWind Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software 4.8 278 VERIFIED REVIEWS 96% RECOMMENDED reviewed April 5, 2021 “StarWind Has Worked Extremely Well For Us For Over 7 Years.” INDUSTRY: FINANCE COMPANY SIZE: 3B – 10B USD READ MORE reviewed Sep 13, 2021 StarWind is an excellent Virtual SAN solution for Vmware INDUSTRY: CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SIZE: <50M USD READ MORE reviewed June 12, 2021 Great Software. Support and help is very good. INDUSTRY: MANUFACTURING COMPANY SIZE: 50M - 250M USD READ MORE We were able to build 2-node storage clusters based on virtualization in 19 hypermarkets without any problems and with high cost-efficiency. 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