Software Defined Storage
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Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN
The StarWind Virtual SAN solution is one of the easiest ways to run software-defined virtual SAN in Hyper-V. It has many great features that were recently updated to provide an even better solution with faster replication. Let’s look at the…
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Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features
In the virtualized environment, we can use many great tools for storage resources. These include virtual storage appliances, especially to attach to running virtual machine instances in the environment, like VMware vSphere. Recently, StarWind released a new version of their…
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Free Virtual SAN Storage Software with StarWind
In your home lab environment or production use cases, you may need shared storage for virtualization, scale-out repositories, high availability, hyperconverged infrastructure, and other use cases – free Virtual SAN storage software. You may run various vendor-specific environments like VMware…
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure Trends in 2022
Unquestionably, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is gaining tremendous momentum and adoption in the enterprise data center. In a recent study by the ISG (Information Services Group), in 2020, the HCI market was around $7 billion. The expected revenue will grow substantially…
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Upgrading outdated hardware with StarWind HCA appliance
As many organizations are looking at upgrade and refresh cycles this year, storage solutions are one of the core considerations for any new deployment. Businesses have been increasingly shifting their data centers to software-defined solutions that provide modern benefits for…
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DIY fibre channel SAN with High Availability using StarWind VSAN
Many organizations have long used fibre channel as their preferred storage platform of choice. While iSCSI and other protocols have dominated markets over the past decade or so, fibre channel is still alive and prevalent in many enterprise datacenters. Many…
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ZFS Ultimate Administration and Troubleshooting Guide – StarWind Webinar
When it comes to file systems, there are many of them available for use today between Linux, Windows, and other operating systems. A file system that you may have heard about, especially due to its ability for almost infinite scaling,…
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New StarWind VSAN for VMware released new features
Most enterprise customers today are looking to leverage modern storage solutions to back their enterprise applications. VMware has its own software-defined storage solution called vSAN that is heavily gaining momentum in the enterprise. VMware vSAN touts many robust features. However,…
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Hyper-V vSAN Equivalent with StarWind VSAN
The Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V HCI space has gone through many evolutions of changes. Microsoft is now going with Azure Stack HCI as their new platform moving forward, even with on-premises virtualization. Azure Stack HCI uses Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)…
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Add NAS to VMware ESXi with StarWind SAN & NAS Free
Recently StarWind release a totally free SAN and NAS appliance that allows quickly spinning up a storage appliance based on various types of storage, both physical and virtual. This new appliance is totally free to download and provision. It makes…
