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StarWind Virtual SAN is entirely software-based, hypervisor-centric virtual machine storage. It creates a fully fault-tolerant and high-performing storage pool that is built for the virtualization workload “from scratch”. StarWind Virtual SAN basically “mirrors” inexpensive internal storage between hosts. Virtual SAN completely eliminates any need for an expensive SAN or NAS or other physical shared storage. It seamlessly integrates into the hypervisor for unbeatable performance and exceptional simplicity of use.
StarWind Virtual SAN is entirely software-based, hypervisor-centric virtual machine storage. It creates a fully fault-tolerant and high-performing storage pool that is built for the virtualization workload “from scratch”. StarWind Virtual SAN basically “mirrors” inexpensive internal storage between hosts. Virtual SAN completely eliminates any need for an expensive SAN or NAS or other physical shared storage. It seamlessly integrates into the hypervisor for unbeatable performance and exceptional simplicity of use.
StarWind Virtual SAN is entirely software-based, hypervisor-centric virtual machine storage. It creates a fully fault-tolerant and high-performing storage pool that is built for the virtualization workload “from scratch”. StarWind Virtual SAN basically “mirrors” inexpensive internal storage between hosts. Virtual SAN completely eliminates any need for an expensive SAN or NAS or other physical shared storage. It seamlessly integrates into the hypervisor for unbeatable performance and exceptional simplicity of use.
an entirely software-based, VM-centric virtual machine storage, which
basically mirrors internal hard disk and flash memory between hypervisor hosts
software which eliminates any need for physical shared storage like SAS JBODs, iSCSI, Fibre Channel or NAS and seamlessly integrates into the hypervisor StarWind Virtual SAN is 2 before after Similar to VMware Virtual SAN but 3 Has an absolutely minimalistic hardware footprint needing only two physical hosts running VMware vSphere hypervisor and literally no other hardware (flash is optional)
Flash-friendly it uses Log-Structured File System (LSFS), in-line Deduplication and RAM-based L1 cache to help flash last longer eliminating small writes, reducing amount of written data and adsorbing writes in RAM Similar to Microsoft Clustered Storage Spaces but 4 Has flexed-out hardware requirements starting with just two physical hosts running Hyper-V, no additional and external hardware is required: no SAS JBODs, SAS HBAs cabling, FC, iSCSI or SMB 3.0. Works not only with SAS but with SATA and PCIe flash memory. 10/40/56 Gb Ethernet is used for connections, instead of 6/12 Gb SAS.
Adds In-line Deduplication and LSFS log structure targeting VDI and write intensive VMs and is Flash-friendly due to the amount of written data reduced in real time thus prolonging flash life 5 Runs inside Hyper-V kernel and uses SMB 3.0 SOFS, iSCSI and Scale- Out File Servers approaches to fit storage. It also uses RAM and PCIe based write back cache to adsorb writes and cache I/O. Similar to Microsoft Clustered Storage Spaces but Hyper-Converged 6 Natural part of the hypervisor, either kernel or VM based High performance with all major virtualization platforms, like Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, due to reducing I/O path, reads and writes go locally and server side running RAM and flash cache. Support of non-virtualized clusters typically deployed for performance- intensive SQL Server, Exchange, Oracle and SAP installations and Scale-Out File Servers, SMB 3.0, NFS general purpose file servers Compute and Storage Separated 7 Possibility to run on a dedicated set of servers creating separated storage pools, while for some installation a high LUN density is required. Implemented for total flexibility of different configurations to increase compute and storage layers performance with not only one means. Uses industry standard uplink protocols SMB 3.0, NFS, iSCSI and hypervisor specific I/O acceleration technologies VAAI and ODX. Scale-Up & Scale-Out 8 Flexible adoption of both Scale-Up and Scale-Out architectures capacity is increased by throwing more spindles or flash modules into the existing storage cluster nodes, storage and compute capacity is increased by adding additional nodes. 9 Fault Tolerance and High Availability Basically mirroring of the actual storage and caches between the hosts. Any number of replicas of a particular VM or LUN are kept alive and the cluster uses required number of active storage controllers.
VM-Centric Storage A combination of RAM and Flash as multi-layered cache is used to eliminate random reads, thus achieving major performance increase. Multiple smaller random writes are coalesced into a single sequential big I/O write. Implementation of Log-Structured File system (LSFS) allows to achieve up to 90% raw sequential write performance at the file system level. 10 Hardware Agnostic The utilization of inexpensive commodity hardware with the help of proprietary in-house developed software, general-purpose x64 servers, MLC flash, spinning disks and Ethernet, thus making a high- performance solution affordable.
Asynchronous replication An effective mechanism to ensure that mission-critical business data is replicated to a disaster recovery site. Replication is implemented to be asynchronous, background, deduplication and compression-aware as well as snapshot-based to reduce load on slow WAN connection. 11 Snapshots and Automated Storage Tiering Implementing of inter-node tiering technology to offload cold data from fast and expensive primary all-flash storage to slower but inexpensive secondary storage tier.
Deduplication and compression Utilization of VM and flash-friendly space reduction technologies such as in-line deduplication and compression, increasing usable capacity of all-flash configurations and also prolonging flash life-cycle. 301 Edgewater Place, Suite 100, Wakefield, MA 01880 USA 1-617-449-7717 Main 1-617-507-5845 Fax