Solution Overview StarWind iSCSI SAN Free Edition SAN that ensures High Performance, Reliable Protection and Minimal Disk Space Requirements at ZERO-cost! Exclusive storage offer for Veeam customers Key features StarWind Free Edition provides absolute investment savings! • Global Deduplication • CDP & Snapshots • Thin Provisioning With StarWind Storage Area Network you get: • Centralized Management • Multi-level cache Reliable and secure SAN • Unlimited Capacity and Number of concurrent connection Maximized Disk Space Savings Optimized utilization of your existing hardware and network resources Benefits Ensured Business Continuity The whole range of storage benefits TOTALLY FREE • Reduction of storage space consumption • Short recovery point Deduplication Considerations • Fault tolerance • Few minutes installation • Simple management Customers of VEEAM Backup & Replication will especially benefit from use of Data • High performance Deduplication – a really advantageous feature for any backup infrastructure. • Use of industry-standard hardware • Enterprise-level features • Cost-efficiency The Data Dedupe technologies delivered by most of the storage and backup vendors deduplicate and compress backup data on a per-host basis which is truly efficient for one-host environments. Companies with multiple hosts can also successfully use this technological approach. However they will benefit much more from using Global Deduplication that eliminates duplicated data throughout the whole system. Storage Optimization Using StarWind Global Deduplication StarWind In-line Global Deduplication performs search of redundant data between all connected hosts. It deduplicates data before it is transferred to disk thus minimizing the amount of required disk space. This type of deduplication is referred to as In-line dedupe. Data analysis, hash-counting and comparison with index take place during the data transfer from client to target. Deduplication algorithm determines the redundant blocks ‘on the fly’, and does not require time and storage to write them previously. There is little to provision and manage because the system needs to monitor and control only the amount of disk space required for storage of deduplicated data. Another apparent benefit of StarWind deduplication is reduction of time for Disaster Recovery. The StarWind dedupe technology completes the I/O cycle during the www.starwindsoftware.com Solution Overview backup and is ready to make replication of deduplicated data at the shortest possible Recommended system requirements time point. Its well thought-out approach does not affect the speed of backups and restores. • Windows Server 2008 R2 • 2 GHz Intel Xeon class processor • 4 GB of RAM Fast Installation and Simple Management • 1 GB for application data and log files • Dedicated disk volumes • Gigabit Ethernet connection StarWind iSCSI SAN can be fairly considered the easiest SAN solution. It takes only a few minutes to install the software, set up, and configure the Storage Area Network. Certifications Centralized management from StarWind Management Console, maximum automation of processes, and an intuitive user-friendly interface will make your experience with StarWind iSCSI SAN is certified as VMware Ready, Citrix Ready and Works StarWind enjoyable and productive. with Windows Server R2 solution. Use of Existing IT Resources to Create Up-to-date SAN Creation of a reliable SAN storage can be as simple as a mouse-click if you already have industry-standard enterprise-class x86 or x64 servers and the minimum required network resources in your IT infrastructure. Users with exceptional performance requirements can build StarWind iSCSI SAN using 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. In this case, our affordable and easy-to-use SAN solution will outperform the expensive and difficult Fibre Channel SANs. StarWind Free and StarWind Commercial versions StarWind Free Edition is a feature-limited edition of the StarWind iSCSI SAN (www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind), and is offered as a free software. Synchronous Mirroring, Remote Replication, High Availability, Disk Bridge and SPTI are not included in this edition. To access these features, download the 30-day trial edition of StarWind iSCSI SAN, available here: Technical Support 24/7 www.starwindsoftware.com/download-free-trial. StarWind provides qualified support services at the stage of software Summary deployment, configuration, and maintenance. Contact us at: StarWind Software is focused on development of effective and reliable solutions to www.starwindsoftware.com/support/ build a Storage Area Network. StarWind iSCSI SAN brings the concept of data storage Get StarWind iSCSI SAN Free Edition to a new level of efficiency and availability. This solution ensures that the VM data now! www.starwindsoftware.com/ backed up with Veeam Backup and Replication is safely stored and constantly download-starwind-free/ ABOUT STARWIND StarWind Software is a global leader in Storage Virtualization and iSCSI storage for small and midsize companies. The StarWind flagship product is a storage virtualization software platform that turns any industry-standard Windows Server into a fault-tolerant, fail-safe iSCSI SAN. It is designed for use as networked storage for VMware, Hyper-V, and other server applications that are configured in server clusters. More than 30,000 customers from over 100 countries all over the world trust the StarWind software solutions. US Headquarters EMEA and APAC Central EMEA 40 Mall Rd. +44 (0) 207 193-6350 Monikastr. 13 Burlington, MA 01803 +44 (0) 207 193-6727 53757 Sankt Augustin +1-617-449-7717 Main Email: [email protected] +49-1715109103 +1-617-507-5845 Fax Email: [email protected] ©2012, StarWind Software Inc. 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