Starwind VSAN for Hyper-V Native to Hyper-V

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StarWind VSAN for Hyper-V Native to Hyper-V. 100% less hardware.

Have you ever dreamed of clustering your Hyper-V hosts Now StarWind makes that dream Key features using only inexpensive SATA a reality! You can create a fault- and Ethernet? tolerant Hyper-V cluster with just Scale-Up & Scale-Out two existing Microsoft Hyper-V hosts, SATA and Ethernet. No High Availability other hardware is required!

RAM & Flash Cache

Log-Structured File System Software-Defined Storage for Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 In-Line Dedupe Native Virtual SAN that needs no hardware Asynchronous Replication & Copy-on-Write Snapshots StarWind VSAN (formerly known as StarWind Native SAN) is a virtual SAN that runs on a Hyper-V host as a native Windows application and uses inexpensive SATA and Ethernet Virtual Tape Library to create a Hyper-V cluster. Unlike other solutions, StarWind VSAN does not run inside a guest VM and provides dramatically better performance, without the burden of non- Technical support Windows guest VM management. StarWind is designed from scratch to use a flash memory as the primary storage, and to The qualified StarWind support team is scale up performance and disk space “as-you-grow”. always ready to assist! StarWind VSAN reproduces the benefits of VMware VSAN for Hyper-V environments, Contact: and delivers them in much more affordable and advantageous ways: www.starwindsoftware.com/support

* Commercial licenses of StarWind VSAN include StarWind VSAN Microsoft Clustered one year of FREE standard technical support. for Hyper-V Storage Spaces

Minimum Number of Hosts 2 2

Scale-Out unlimited 2**

Disk Interfaces SATA, PCIe & SAS SAS Only

Distributed Read-Only RAM Cache Try a 30-day FREE trial of Write-Back (with CSV Cache) StarWind VSAN! Flash Cache SATA, PCIe & SAS SAS Only

To learn more, visit: Off-line, 32KB blocks, In-Line, 4KB blocks, www.starwindsoftware.com Dedupe VM NOT Ready VM Ready (with NTFS Filter)

VM Asynchronous Replication LUN (with Hyper-V Replica)

** Scale-Out beyond 2 nodes requires expensive SAS switches or SAS expanders

More financial benefits Get bigger ROI and lower TCO

As virtual storage, StarWind works seamlessly on any COTS hardware and requires no SAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI or corresponding infrastructure. That means no: SAS JBOD, SAS controllers, FC HBAs, FC switches, iSCSI dedicated Ethernet switches or cabling. • No need for dedicated storage hardware!

StarWind’s in-line deduplication and thin provisioning with space reclaim both ensure effective resource utilization, and allow ten times more VM data to be stored on expensive flash or other primary storage. • Reduce storage costs by up to 90%!

StarWind’s log-structured file system (LSFS) eliminates all random writes and reduces a number of rewrite operations*. • Lengthen the life of flash devices!

Best practice business continuity and disaster recovery tools

Get 99.9999% uptime in Scale-Out cluster and enhance your DRP

StarWind VSAN fits perfectly in all Hyper-V environments and can be easily adjusted to meet your storage capacity, uptime, performance and disaster recovery needs. As a genuine Scale-Out storage solution, it enables unlimited scaling of resources – all you need to do is to connect an extra host “on the fly”.

StarWind also delivers two- and three-way synchronous replication between individual LUNs in a cluster, which ensures 99.99% and 99.9999% uptime respectively. This approach guarantees resilience for one- or two-node failures for a particular LUN.

LUN-level asynchronous replication transfers data over WAN and creates a remote and secure disaster recovery site. As it only replicates increments and applies in-line deduplication, you can use slow WAN connections for replication.

Flash-aware storage optimized for VM needs

Handle VM workloads and improve performance

StarWind VSAN boosts VM performance with all the benefits of using flash devices as primary storage and delivers:

• High-performance RAM and flash caching VSAN reduces random reads and spoofing writes using RAM and SSD flash caching. Unlike caching provided by legacy solutions, the distributed nature of StarWind’s write-back caching guarantees that if a host fails, a VM will use replicated data from the other host to start a VM from a “hot” cache state.

• In-line deduplication and thin provisioning with space reclaim Disk-space saving features enable automatic allocation of free space in accordance with current needs and save only unique data to the storage. Elimination of identical writes increases the life of expensive flash devices.

• Log-structured file system (LSFS) Experimental The LSFS architecture replaces multiple small random writes with one big sequential write. This ensures high throughput and reduced latency within the cluster. It distributes VM workloads evenly and eliminates the I/O blender effect.

• Support for ODX Experimental Use Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to improve CPU usage and to offload jobs from a hypervisor server to the storage array. Ensure better performance and faster data transfer using substantially less resource.

Easy to set up and easy to use

Save your time and effort

Installing and configuring StarWind VSAN takes just a couple of minutes and can be done by any Windows system administrator. There are no VM management overheads (unlike other virtual SAN products, which follow Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD guest VM practices).

The StarWind VSAN license includes FREE* support from highly qualified technicians for one year.