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KEY FEATURES StarWind iSCSI SAN for VMware vSphere • Mirroring & Replication • CDP & Snapshots Combine the power of VMware Server Virtualization • Thin Provisioning and StarWind • Central Management

USES BENEFITS • Storage Virtualization • Simplify VMware storage management. • Storage Consolidation • Supports VMware features: VMware HA, • Disaster Recovery VMotion, DRS and VCB. • Business Continuity • Enhances VMware with higher data • Server Clustering availability, reliability and protection. • Shared Storage • Leverages VMware vSphere to build a true cluster with an iSCSI SAN. BENEFITS • Eliminates a single point of failure. ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES FOR SMBS USING VMWARE. • Speeding data migrations without • Performance, reliability, sacrificing uptime. scalability, manageability, availability and speed StarWind iSCSI SAN for VMware • Zero downtime and seamless server upgrades ENHANCE VMWARE’S DISASTER RECOVERY. and migrations FUNCTIONALITY. Leveraging StarWind’s synchronous mirroring • Limit or avoid additional VMware’s High Availability, VMotion, VCB and asynchronous replication features, you hardware purchases by and Distributed Resource Scheduler all can place your data on a remote or separate repurposing existing require the presence of shared storage. machine. In the event of a disruption, you can infrastructure By using StarWind as your storage, take immediately restart your virtual machines USES INDUSTRY STANDARD advantage of these features and eliminate and continue operations. NETWORKING AND SERVERS. downtime and increase the performance No proprietary servers, of your virtual environment. REPURPOSE HARDWARE, GO GREEN IT. storage or networking Efficiently and economically improve your switches required and can INCREASE STORAGE UTILIZATION. hardware utilization and leverage existing work with 10 GigE. With automatic Thin Provisioning, you gain IT infrastructure. Reuse your existing servers

substantial storage efficiency without buying and storage and transform old servers into more storage than you really need. You will enterprise-class iSCSI SANs. never have to over-allocate storage again. EASILY MANAGE YOUR STORAGE. PROTECT VMs. Use our simple, intuitive graphical user By using enterprise-class features such as interface and take advantage of the product’s StarWind CDP & Snapshots, you can built-in flexibility to expand the size of the protect your data with point-in-time volumes available on your StarWind Server copies on a volume-by-volume basis. iSCSI SAN.

RECOMMENDED GO FROM ZERO TO SAN IN UNDER 30 MINUTES SYSTEM The advent of iSCSI storage solutions enables companies running VMware to quickly reap the REQUIREMENTS benefits of enterprise-level storage solutions without making a large investment in expensive, • Windows Server 2008 R2 proprietary and complex SAN systems. • 2 GHz Intel Xeon class processor StarWind’s iSCSI SAN storage for VMware vSphere • 4 GB of RAM environments is a software iSCSI SAN solution that can • 1 GB for application data install on top your existing infrastructure. It delivers all the and log files functionality of a Fibre Channel SAN but none of its costs. • Dedicated disk volumes Any Windows Server can be converted into a reliable, scalable, high-performance iSCSI SAN • Gigabit Ethernet in less than 30 minutes over existing Ethernet, and it can exceed Fibre Channel performance connection when used in 10 GigE Ethernet networks. There is no requirement to purchase any proprietary servers, storage or networking equipment. Your storage can be virtualized, consolidated and centrally managed with StarWind’s solution. And you will be able to protect your VMware WHO BUYS STARWIND environment fully in the event of a failure. StarWind Server is a powerful and reliable iSCSI SAN used by Why suffer through implementation headaches or invest in training for specialized small and midsize businesses, proprietary SANs? Now you can enjoy high data availability and VM protection that you get governments, and Fortune from proprietary SANs, but with significantly higher cost-efficiency and a better ROI. 1000 clients. StarWind iSCSI SAN for VMware delivers a full range of SAN services to provision networked storage, reduce vulnerability and protect data. Microsoft VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Services) TECHNICAL SUPPORT compatibility, dynamic point-in-time volume snapshots and automatic incremental backups Full-function products deserve make both backup and recovery a breeze. All this, plus StarWind’s reliability, scalability and full-featured support. Whether performance, not to mention unlimited terabytes of storage per server license, make this a you’re downloading StarWind perfect SAN for midsize companies and remote office/branch office (ROBO installations with to evaluate it, or just need VMware ESX and ESXi environments. technical support for your SAN, StarWind is always STARWIND SOFTWARE IS COMPATIBLE WITH available to help you at www.starwindsoftware.com • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 READY FOR A TEST DRIVE? StarWind is tested for compatibility with the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator and it has also been Visit us today at tested for compatibility with various Linux and UNIX iSCSI initiators, iSCSI HBAs from Adaptec www.starwindsoftware.com and QLogic and hardware iSCSI accelerators from Alacritech.

ABOUT STARWIND Since 2003, StarWind has been a pioneer in the iSCSI storage industry and has been the solution of choice for thousands of global customers in over 50 countries, from SMBs, to governments, and to Fortune 1000 clients. US Headquarters EMEA and APAC USA and LATAM: for VMware and Hyper-V 40 Mall Rd. +44 (0) 207 193-6350 +1-617-449-7717 Main Burlington, MA 01803 +44 (0) 207 193-6727 +1-617-507-5845 Fax Main +1-617-449-7717 Email: Email: www.starwindsoftware.com +1-617-507-5845 Fax [email protected] [email protected]