1. StarWind
Enterprise CDP Edition
StarWind Enterprise Server license is required for the server designated
as the primary storage controller and includes unlimited concurrent iSCSI
client connections, support CDP/snapshot features and a limit of 4TB of storage
capacity. One Enterprise Server license permits installation only on one
storage node. Please note that this license does not allow the use of two
storage servers and requires an upgrade to StarWind Enterprise Mirroring &
Replication for configuring data mirroring or remote replication from the
primary to the secondary node. The licenses includes 1 year of maintenance.
Features:
CDP & Snapshots: captures
point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points
Server Clustering: provides shared
storage for High Availability server clustering
Thin Provisioning: allocates space
dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization
CDP and Live, Point-in-Time
Snapshots
StarWind’s Snapshots capture a volume’s state at any point in time. You
can perform the Snapshots manually or have them scheduled. These live,
point-in-time Snapshots are instant and capture a consistent state of the data
you have stored on the SAN.
Point in Time Snapshots
·
Instantly recover and roll back an entire disk volume
or individual files and folders
·
Perform manually or schedule and capture point-in-time
block level copies
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage
for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and
availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent
servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical
applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of
computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is
specifically designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the
addition or removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The
general concept in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that
are members of the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are
running an application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state
communicating with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a
failure. In the event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and
starts running the service or application.
Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a
failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of
a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the
redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows
two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided
using StarWind Enterprise Server.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters
dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage you need today, and add
more storage to the cluster as application data grows. This allows you to raise
storage utilization levels, increase return on investment, and make the
constantly falling price of storage per gigabyte work to your advantage. You
can purchase storage as needed without over-provisioning storage. Thin
Provisioning is implemented consistently and it's the mechanism that makes
Automatic Snapshots, Remote Replication and Synchronous Data Mirroring all
space efficient.
StarWind Thin Provisioning helps you to use storage more efficiently and
allocate only the space that you actually use:
·
Purchase storage as you need it, not in advance
·
Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility
·
Raise utilization, efficiency, and ROI
·
Take advantage of constantly falling prices per
gigabyte
·
Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Applications
Industries
2. StarWind Enterprise Mirroring & Replication
Edition
StarWind Enterprise Mirroring & Replication license is required for
the server designated as the primary storage controller and includes unlimited
client connections and unlimited storage capacity. The StarWind Enterprise
Mirroring & Replication permits installation on a secondary node for the purpose
of mirroring or replication from the primary node. Please note that this
license is not meant to allow the use of two active storage servers but only
permits an active-passive configuration for mirroring or replication from the
primary to the secondary node. The licenses includes 1 year of maintenance.
Features:
Synchronous Data Mirroring: real-time data
mirroring across a 2 node storage cluster
Remote / Asynchronous
Replication: replicates your storage to a remote site across a WAN
CDP & Snapshots: captures
point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points
Server Clustering: provides shared
storage for High Availability server clustering
Thin Provisioning: allocates space
dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization
Synchronous Data Mirroring
Synchronous Data Mirroring is critical for protection, business
continuity and disaster recovery, and loss prevention. The feature performs
block-level data mirroring across any disk system regardless of vendor or disk
type using iSCSI connectivity. With StarWind's synchronous data mirroring, your
data is synchronized to a second storage device. Once the mirror is online, all
future data is written simultaneously to both the primary volume and the
mirror.
·
Performs Real-time I/O mirroring for Business
Continuity and Fail-Safe Protection
·
Mirrors two independent storage devices simultaneously
via RAID1 configuration
·
Ensures High Availability of your data and your
storage with SAN redundancy
·
Eliminates your storage as a single point of failure
·
Reduces downtime while protecting your mission
critical data
Data Asynchronous Replication
Asynchronous replication is important for disaster recovery because it
allows you to copy mission-critical data over the WAN to a secure remote
location. This data can be recovered within a short recovery point and with
minimal disruption.
Replicating data to an offsite location allows you to be up and running
during a disaster. This allows a robust disaster recovery plan to fail over to
a remote site, knowing that your data is intact.
Remote Replication and Backup
·
Replicate data off-site over a WAN using standard
IP/Internet
·
Have data stored remotely for protection
·
Allows for Disaster Recovery planning
CDP and Live, Point-in-Time
Snapshots
StarWind’s Snapshots capture a volume’s state at any point in time. You
can perform the Snapshots manually or have them scheduled. These live,
point-in-time Snapshots are instant and capture a consistent state of the data
you have stored on the SAN.
Point in Time Snapshots
·
Instantly recover and roll back an entire disk volume
or individual files and folders
·
Perform manually or schedule and capture point-in-time
block level copies
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage
for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and
availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent
servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical
applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of
computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is
specifically designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the
addition or removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The
general concept in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that
are members of the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are
running an application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state
communicating with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a
failure. In the event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and
starts running the service or application.
Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a
failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of
a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the
redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows
two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided
using StarWind Enterprise Server.
Synchronous Data Mirroring
Synchronous Data Mirroring is critical for protection, business
continuity and disaster recovery, and loss prevention. The feature performs
block-level data mirroring across any disk system regardless of vendor or disk
type using iSCSI connectivity. With StarWind's synchronous data mirroring, your
data is synchronized to a second storage device. Once the mirror is online, all
future data is written simultaneously to both the primary volume and the
mirror.
·
Performs Real-time I/O mirroring for Business
Continuity and Fail-Safe Protection
·
Mirrors two independent storage devices simultaneously
via RAID1 configuration
·
Ensures High Availability of your data and your
storage with SAN redundancy
·
Eliminates your storage as a single point of failure
·
Reduces downtime while protecting your mission
critical data
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters
dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage you need today, and add
more storage to the cluster as application data grows. This allows you to raise
storage utilization levels, increase return on investment, and make the
constantly falling price of storage per gigabyte work to your advantage. You
can purchase storage as needed without over-provisioning storage. Thin
Provisioning is implemented consistently and it's the mechanism that makes
Automatic Snapshots, Remote Replication and Synchronous Data Mirroring all
space efficient.
StarWind Thin Provisioning helps you to use storage more efficiently and
allocate only the space that you actually use:
·
Purchase storage as you need it, not in advance
·
Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility
·
Raise utilization, efficiency, and ROI
·
Take advantage of constantly falling prices per
gigabyte
·
Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Applications
Industries
3. StarWind Enterprise HA 2TB Edition
StarWind Enterprise HA 2TB
Edition license includes unlimited iSCSI client connections with 2TB storage
capacity for smaller storage capacity environments that require Active-Active
High Availability but do not have a large amount of stored data. The StarWind
Enterprise HA 2TB license permits installation on a secondary node for the
purpose of mirroring or replication from the primary node. The licenses
includes 1 year of maintenance.
Features:
·
Synchronous Data
Mirroring: real-time data mirroring across a 2 node storage cluster
·
High Availability /
Automatic Failover: fault tolerant technology eliminates single point of
failure
·
Failback with Fast
Synchronization: failback to an original system after an automatic failover
·
Remote /
Asynchronous Replication: replicates your storage to a remote site across a WAN
·
CDP &
Snapshots: captures point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points
·
Server Clustering: provides shared
storage for High Availability server clustering
·
Thin Provisioning: allocates space
dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization
Synchronous Data Mirroring
Synchronous Data Mirroring is critical for protection, business
continuity and disaster recovery, and loss prevention. The feature performs
block-level data mirroring across any disk system regardless of vendor or disk
type using iSCSI connectivity. With StarWind's synchronous data mirroring, your
data is synchronized to a second storage device. Once the mirror is online, all
future data is written simultaneously to both the primary volume and the
mirror.
·
Performs Real-time I/O mirroring for Business
Continuity and Fail-Safe Protection
·
Mirrors two independent storage devices simultaneously
via RAID1 configuration
·
Ensures High Availability of your data and your
storage with SAN redundancy
·
Eliminates your storage as a single point of failure
·
Reduces downtime while protecting your mission
critical data
SAN Automatic Failover and
Active-Active High Availability Storage
StarWind Active-Active High Availability storage architecture uses
Synchronous Data Mirroring with Automatic Failover and Failback technology,
allowing the storage to continue operating properly in the event of a failure.
The automatic failover technology permits you to configure an
Active-Active 2 Node storage cluster which ensures a highly reliable and fault
tolerant storage. In StarWind's Active-Active Failover system, storage data is
load balanced across the storage nodes (or storage appliances) and, in the
event of failure, storage traffic that was originally intended for the first
(failed) node is routed to other node. These two storage nodes or appliances
continuously monitor each other and, in the event that one fails, the second
node automatically assumes the workload
without any manual intervention from the IT administrator.
StarWind Enterprise HA manages synchronous mirroring and active-active
automatic failover on a per-volume basis. Because the volume's identity never
changes, even in the event when a node or a site fails, your server
applications experience continuous data availability without a single point of
failure.
Failback with Fast
Synchronization
StarWind's Failback restores the first storage node to its original
state before failure. After the failure,
StarWind will automatically failover to the redundant storage node. But then the system can failback and
synchronize to the first storage nide after it is back online.
StarWind's Failback includes a proprietary "Fast Sync" technology
that permits to synchronize to the original storage node quickly instead of
performing full synchronization from scratch as most alternative failback
technologies do.
The Fast Sync technology permits failback without requiring a complete
re-sync of the data between the storage nodes. Only the incremental changed
data has to be re-synced once the offline node is back online and ready to
resume normal operations.
Data Asynchronous Replication
Asynchronous replication is important for disaster recovery because it
allows you to copy mission-critical data over the WAN to a secure remote
location. This data can be recovered within a short recovery point and with
minimal disruption.
Replicating data to an offsite location allows you to be up and running
during a disaster. This allows a robust disaster recovery plan to fail over to
a remote site, knowing that your data is intact.
Remote Replication and Backup
·
Replicate data off-site over a WAN using standard
IP/Internet
·
Have data stored remotely for protection
·
Allows for Disaster Recovery planning
CDP and Live, Point-in-Time
Snapshots
StarWind’s Snapshots capture a volume’s state at any point in time. You
can perform the Snapshots manually or have them scheduled. These live,
point-in-time Snapshots are instant and capture a consistent state of the data
you have stored on the SAN.
Point in Time Snapshots
·
Instantly recover and roll back an entire disk volume
or individual files and folders
·
Perform manually or schedule and capture point-in-time
block level copies
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage
for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and
availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent
servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical
applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of
computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is
specifically designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the
addition or removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The
general concept in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that
are members of the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are
running an application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state
communicating with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a
failure. In the event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and
starts running the service or application.
Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a
failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of
a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the
redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows
two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided
using StarWind Enterprise Server.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters
dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage you need today, and add
more storage to the cluster as application data grows. This allows you to raise
storage utilization levels, increase return on investment, and make the
constantly falling price of storage per gigabyte work to your advantage. You
can purchase storage as needed without over-provisioning storage. Thin
Provisioning is implemented consistently and it's the mechanism that makes
Automatic Snapshots, Remote Replication and Synchronous Data Mirroring all
space efficient.
StarWind Thin Provisioning helps you to use storage more efficiently and
allocate only the space that you actually use:
·
Purchase storage as you need it, not in advance
·
Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility
·
Raise utilization, efficiency, and ROI
·
Take advantage of constantly falling prices per
gigabyte
·
Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Applications
Industries
4. StarWind Enterprise HA 4TB Edition
StarWind Enterprise HA 4TB
Edition license includes unlimited iSCSI client connections with 4TB storage
capacity for medium storage capacity environments that require Active-Active
High Availability but do not have a large amount of stored data. The StarWind
Enterprise HA 4TB license permits installation on a secondary node for the
purpose of mirroring or replication from the primary node. The licenses
includes 1 year of maintenance.
Features:
·
Synchronous Data
Mirroring: real-time data mirroring across a 2 node storage cluster
·
High Availability /
Automatic Failover: fault tolerant technology eliminates single point of
failure
·
Failback with Fast
Synchronization: failback to an original system after an automatic failover
·
Remote /
Asynchronous Replication: replicates your storage to a remote site across a WAN
·
CDP &
Snapshots: captures point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points
·
Server Clustering: provides shared
storage for High Availability server clustering
·
Thin Provisioning: allocates space
dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization
Synchronous Data Mirroring
Synchronous Data Mirroring is critical for protection, business continuity
and disaster recovery, and loss prevention. The feature performs block-level
data mirroring across any disk system regardless of vendor or disk type using
iSCSI connectivity. With StarWind's synchronous data mirroring, your data is
synchronized to a second storage device. Once the mirror is online, all future
data is written simultaneously to both the primary volume and the mirror.
·
Performs Real-time I/O mirroring for Business
Continuity and Fail-Safe Protection
·
Mirrors two independent storage devices simultaneously
via RAID1 configuration
·
Ensures High Availability of your data and your
storage with SAN redundancy
·
Eliminates your storage as a single point of failure
·
Reduces downtime while protecting your mission
critical data
SAN Automatic Failover and
Active-Active High Availability Storage
StarWind Active-Active High Availability storage architecture uses
Synchronous Data Mirroring with Automatic Failover and Failback technology,
allowing the storage to continue operating properly in the event of a failure.
The automatic failover technology permits you to configure an
Active-Active 2 Node storage cluster which ensures a highly reliable and fault
tolerant storage. In StarWind's Active-Active Failover system, storage data is
load balanced across the storage nodes (or storage appliances) and, in the
event of failure, storage traffic that was originally intended for the first
(failed) node is routed to other node. These two storage nodes or appliances
continuously monitor each other and, in the event that one fails, the second
node automatically assumes the workload
without any manual intervention from the IT administrator.
StarWind Enterprise HA manages synchronous mirroring and active-active
automatic failover on a per-volume basis. Because the volume's identity never
changes, even in the event when a node or a site fails, your server
applications experience continuous data availability without a single point of
failure.
Failback with Fast
Synchronization
StarWind's Failback restores the first storage node to its original
state before failure. After the failure,
StarWind will automatically failover to the redundant storage node. But then the system can failback and synchronize
to the first storage nide after it is back online.
StarWind's Failback includes a proprietary "Fast Sync"
technology that permits to synchronize to the original storage node quickly
instead of performing full synchronization from scratch as most alternative
failback technologies do.
The Fast Sync technology permits failback without requiring a complete
re-sync of the data between the storage nodes. Only the incremental changed
data has to be re-synced once the offline node is back online and ready to
resume normal operations.
Data Asynchronous Replication
Asynchronous replication is important for disaster recovery because it
allows you to copy mission-critical data over the WAN to a secure remote
location. This data can be recovered within a short recovery point and with
minimal disruption.
Replicating data to an offsite location allows you to be up and running
during a disaster. This allows a robust disaster recovery plan to fail over to
a remote site, knowing that your data is intact.
Remote Replication and Backup
·
Replicate data off-site over a WAN using standard
IP/Internet
·
Have data stored remotely for protection
·
Allows for Disaster Recovery planning
CDP and Live, Point-in-Time
Snapshots
StarWind’s Snapshots capture a volume’s state at any point in time. You
can perform the Snapshots manually or have them scheduled. These live,
point-in-time Snapshots are instant and capture a consistent state of the data
you have stored on the SAN.
Point in Time Snapshots
·
Instantly recover and roll back an entire disk volume
or individual files and folders
·
Perform manually or schedule and capture point-in-time
block level copies
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage
for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and
availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent
servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical
applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of
computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is specifically
designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the addition or
removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The general concept
in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that are members of
the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are running an
application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state communicating
with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a failure. In the
event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and starts running the
service or application.
Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a
failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of
a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the
redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows
two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided
using StarWind Enterprise Server.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters
dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage you need today, and add
more storage to the cluster as application data grows. This allows you to raise
storage utilization levels, increase return on investment, and make the
constantly falling price of storage per gigabyte work to your advantage. You
can purchase storage as needed without over-provisioning storage. Thin
Provisioning is implemented consistently and it's the mechanism that makes
Automatic Snapshots, Remote Replication and Synchronous Data Mirroring all
space efficient.
StarWind Thin Provisioning helps you to use storage more efficiently and
allocate only the space that you actually use:
·
Purchase storage as you need it, not in advance
·
Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility
·
Raise utilization, efficiency, and ROI
·
Take advantage of constantly falling prices per
gigabyte
·
Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Applications
Industries
·
SMB
5. StarWind Enterprise HA 8TB Edition
StarWind Enterprise
HA 8TB Edition license includes unlimited iSCSI client connections with 8TB
storage capacity for large storage capacity environments that require
Active-Active High Availability. The StarWind Enterprise HA 8TB license permits
installation on a secondary node for the purpose of mirroring or replication
from the primary node. The licenses includes 1 year of maintenance.
Features:
·
Synchronous Data
Mirroring: real-time data mirroring across a 2 node storage cluster
·
High Availability /
Automatic Failover: fault tolerant technology eliminates single point of
failure
·
Failback with Fast
Synchronization: failback to an original system after an automatic failover
·
Remote /
Asynchronous Replication: replicates your storage to a remote site across a WAN
·
CDP &
Snapshots: captures point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points
·
Server Clustering: provides shared
storage for High Availability server clustering
·
Thin Provisioning: allocates space
dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization
Synchronous Data Mirroring
Synchronous Data Mirroring is critical for protection, business
continuity and disaster recovery, and loss prevention. The feature performs
block-level data mirroring across any disk system regardless of vendor or disk
type using iSCSI connectivity. With StarWind's synchronous data mirroring, your
data is synchronized to a second storage device. Once the mirror is online, all
future data is written simultaneously to both the primary volume and the
mirror.
·
Performs Real-time I/O mirroring for Business
Continuity and Fail-Safe Protection
·
Mirrors two independent storage devices simultaneously
via RAID1 configuration
·
Ensures High Availability of your data and your
storage with SAN redundancy
·
Eliminates your storage as a single point of failure
·
Reduces downtime while protecting your mission
critical data
SAN Automatic Failover and
Active-Active High Availability Storage
StarWind Active-Active High Availability storage architecture uses
Synchronous Data Mirroring with Automatic Failover and Failback technology,
allowing the storage to continue operating properly in the event of a failure.
The automatic failover technology permits you to configure an
Active-Active 2 Node storage cluster which ensures a highly reliable and fault
tolerant storage. In StarWind's Active-Active Failover system, storage data is
load balanced across the storage nodes (or storage appliances) and, in the
event of failure, storage traffic that was originally intended for the first
(failed) node is routed to other node. These two storage nodes or appliances
continuously monitor each other and, in the event that one fails, the second
node automatically assumes the workload
without any manual intervention from the IT administrator.
StarWind Enterprise HA manages synchronous mirroring and active-active
automatic failover on a per-volume basis. Because the volume's identity never
changes, even in the event when a node or a site fails, your server
applications experience continuous data availability without a single point of
failure.
Failback with Fast
Synchronization
StarWind's Failback restores the first storage node to its original
state before failure. After the failure,
StarWind will automatically failover to the redundant storage node. But then the system can failback and
synchronize to the first storage nide after it is back online.
StarWind's Failback includes a proprietary "Fast Sync"
technology that permits to synchronize to the original storage node quickly
instead of performing full synchronization from scratch as most alternative
failback technologies do.
The Fast Sync technology permits failback without requiring a complete
re-sync of the data between the storage nodes. Only the incremental changed
data has to be re-synced once the offline node is back online and ready to
resume normal operations.
Data Asynchronous Replication
Asynchronous replication is important for disaster recovery because it
allows you to copy mission-critical data over the WAN to a secure remote
location. This data can be recovered within a short recovery point and with
minimal disruption.
Replicating data to an offsite location allows you to be up and running
during a disaster. This allows a robust disaster recovery plan to fail over to
a remote site, knowing that your data is intact.
Remote Replication and Backup
·
Replicate data off-site over a WAN using standard
IP/Internet
·
Have data stored remotely for protection
·
Allows for Disaster Recovery planning
CDP and Live, Point-in-Time
Snapshots
StarWind’s Snapshots capture a volume’s state at any point in time. You
can perform the Snapshots manually or have them scheduled. These live, point-in-time
Snapshots are instant and capture a consistent state of the data you have
stored on the SAN.
Point in Time Snapshots
·
Instantly recover and roll back an entire disk volume
or individual files and folders
·
Perform manually or schedule and capture point-in-time
block level copies
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage
for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and
availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent
servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical
applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of
computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is
specifically designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the
addition or removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The
general concept in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that
are members of the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are
running an application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state
communicating with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a
failure. In the event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and
starts running the service or application.
Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a
failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of
a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the
redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows
two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided
using StarWind Enterprise Server.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters
dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage you need today, and add
more storage to the cluster as application data grows. This allows you to raise
storage utilization levels, increase return on investment, and make the
constantly falling price of storage per gigabyte work to your advantage. You
can purchase storage as needed without over-provisioning storage. Thin
Provisioning is implemented consistently and it's the mechanism that makes
Automatic Snapshots, Remote Replication and Synchronous Data Mirroring all
space efficient.
StarWind Thin Provisioning helps you to use storage more efficiently and
allocate only the space that you actually use:
·
Purchase storage as you need it, not in advance
·
Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility
·
Raise utilization, efficiency, and ROI
·
Take advantage of constantly falling prices per
gigabyte
·
Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Applications
Industries
6. StarWind Enterprise HA 16TB Edition
StarWind Enterprise
HA 16TB Edition license includes unlimited iSCSI client connections with 16TB
storage capacity for large storage capacity environments that require
Active-Active High Availability. The StarWind Enterprise HA 16TB license
permits installation of two HA clusters with four active-active nodes for the
purpose of mirroring or replication from two primary nodes. The licenses
includes 1 year of maintenance.
Features:
·
Synchronous Data
Mirroring: real-time data mirroring across a 2 node storage cluster
·
High Availability /
Automatic Failover: fault tolerant technology eliminates single point of
failure
·
Failback with Fast
Synchronization: failback to an original system after an automatic failover
·
Remote /
Asynchronous Replication: replicates your storage to a remote site across a WAN
·
CDP &
Snapshots: captures point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points
·
Server Clustering: provides shared
storage for High Availability server clustering
·
Thin Provisioning: allocates space
dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization
Synchronous Data Mirroring
Synchronous Data Mirroring is critical for protection, business
continuity and disaster recovery, and loss prevention. The feature performs
block-level data mirroring across any disk system regardless of vendor or disk
type using iSCSI connectivity. With StarWind's synchronous data mirroring, your
data is synchronized to a second storage device. Once the mirror is online, all
future data is written simultaneously to both the primary volume and the
mirror.
·
Performs Real-time I/O mirroring for Business
Continuity and Fail-Safe Protection
·
Mirrors two independent storage devices simultaneously
via RAID1 configuration
·
Ensures High Availability of your data and your
storage with SAN redundancy
·
Eliminates your storage as a single point of failure
·
Reduces downtime while protecting your mission
critical data
SAN Automatic Failover and
Active-Active High Availability Storage
StarWind Active-Active High Availability storage architecture uses
Synchronous Data Mirroring with Automatic Failover and Failback technology,
allowing the storage to continue operating properly in the event of a failure.
The automatic failover technology permits you to configure an
Active-Active 2 Node storage cluster which ensures a highly reliable and fault
tolerant storage. In StarWind's Active-Active Failover system, storage data is
load balanced across the storage nodes (or storage appliances) and, in the
event of failure, storage traffic that was originally intended for the first
(failed) node is routed to other node. These two storage nodes or appliances
continuously monitor each other and, in the event that one fails, the second
node automatically assumes the workload
without any manual intervention from the IT administrator.
StarWind Enterprise HA manages synchronous mirroring and active-active
automatic failover on a per-volume basis. Because the volume's identity never
changes, even in the event when a node or a site fails, your server
applications experience continuous data availability without a single point of
failure.
Failback with Fast
Synchronization
StarWind's Failback restores the first storage node to its original
state before failure. After the failure,
StarWind will automatically failover to the redundant storage node. But then the system can failback and
synchronize to the first storage nide after it is back online.
StarWind's Failback includes a proprietary "Fast Sync"
technology that permits to synchronize to the original storage node quickly
instead of performing full synchronization from scratch as most alternative
failback technologies do.
The Fast Sync technology permits failback without requiring a complete
re-sync of the data between the storage nodes. Only the incremental changed
data has to be re-synced once the offline node is back online and ready to
resume normal operations.
Data Asynchronous Replication
Asynchronous replication is important for disaster recovery because it
allows you to copy mission-critical data over the WAN to a secure remote
location. This data can be recovered within a short recovery point and with
minimal disruption.
Replicating data to an offsite location allows you to be up and running
during a disaster. This allows a robust disaster recovery plan to fail over to
a remote site, knowing that your data is intact.
Remote Replication and Backup
·
Replicate data off-site over a WAN using standard
IP/Internet
·
Have data stored remotely for protection
·
Allows for Disaster Recovery planning
CDP and Live, Point-in-Time
Snapshots
StarWind’s Snapshots capture a volume’s state at any point in time. You
can perform the Snapshots manually or have them scheduled. These live,
point-in-time Snapshots are instant and capture a consistent state of the data
you have stored on the SAN.
Point in Time Snapshots
·
Instantly recover and roll back an entire disk volume
or individual files and folders
·
Perform manually or schedule and capture point-in-time
block level copies
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage
for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and
availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent
servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical
applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of
computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is
specifically designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the
addition or removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The
general concept in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that
are members of the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are
running an application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state
communicating with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a
failure. In the event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and
starts running the service or application.
Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a
failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of
a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the
redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows
two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided
using StarWind Enterprise Server.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters
dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage you need today, and add
more storage to the cluster as application data grows. This allows you to raise
storage utilization levels, increase return on investment, and make the
constantly falling price of storage per gigabyte work to your advantage. You
can purchase storage as needed without over-provisioning storage. Thin
Provisioning is implemented consistently and it's the mechanism that makes
Automatic Snapshots, Remote Replication and Synchronous Data Mirroring all
space efficient.
StarWind Thin Provisioning helps you to use storage more efficiently and
allocate only the space that you actually use:
·
Purchase storage as you need it, not in advance
·
Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility
·
Raise utilization, efficiency, and ROI
·
Take advantage of constantly falling prices per
gigabyte
·
Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Applications
Industries
7. StarWind Enterprise HA Unlimited Edition
StarWind Enterprise
HA Unlimited Edition license includes unlimited iSCSI client connections with
unlimited storage capacity with Active-Active High Availability. The StarWind
Enterprise HA Unlimited Edition license permits installation of two HA clusters
with four active-active nodes for the purpose of mirroring or replication from
two primary nodes. The licenses includes 1 year of maintenance.
Features:
·
Synchronous Data
Mirroring: real-time data mirroring across a 2 node storage cluster
·
High Availability /
Automatic Failover: fault tolerant technology eliminates single point of
failure
·
Failback with Fast
Synchronization: failback to an original system after an automatic failover
·
Remote /
Asynchronous Replication: replicates your storage to a remote site across a WAN
·
CDP &
Snapshots: captures point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points
·
Server Clustering: provides shared
storage for High Availability server clustering
·
Thin Provisioning: allocates space
dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization
Synchronous Data Mirroring
Synchronous Data Mirroring is critical for protection, business
continuity and disaster recovery, and loss prevention. The feature performs
block-level data mirroring across any disk system regardless of vendor or disk
type using iSCSI connectivity. With StarWind's synchronous data mirroring, your
data is synchronized to a second storage device. Once the mirror is online, all
future data is written simultaneously to both the primary volume and the
mirror.
·
Performs Real-time I/O mirroring for Business
Continuity and Fail-Safe Protection
·
Mirrors two independent storage devices simultaneously
via RAID1 configuration
·
Ensures High Availability of your data and your
storage with SAN redundancy
·
Eliminates your storage as a single point of failure
·
Reduces downtime while protecting your mission
critical data
SAN Automatic Failover and
Active-Active High Availability Storage
StarWind Active-Active High Availability storage architecture uses
Synchronous Data Mirroring with Automatic Failover and Failback technology,
allowing the storage to continue operating properly in the event of a failure.
The automatic failover technology permits you to configure an
Active-Active 2 Node storage cluster which ensures a highly reliable and fault
tolerant storage. In StarWind's Active-Active Failover system, storage data is
load balanced across the storage nodes (or storage appliances) and, in the
event of failure, storage traffic that was originally intended for the first
(failed) node is routed to other node. These two storage nodes or appliances
continuously monitor each other and, in the event that one fails, the second
node automatically assumes the workload
without any manual intervention from the IT administrator.
StarWind Enterprise HA manages synchronous mirroring and active-active
automatic failover on a per-volume basis. Because the volume's identity never
changes, even in the event when a node or a site fails, your server
applications experience continuous data availability without a single point of
failure.
Failback with Fast
Synchronization
StarWind's Failback restores the first storage node to its original
state before failure. After the failure,
StarWind will automatically failover to the redundant storage node. But then the system can failback and
synchronize to the first storage nide after it is back online.
StarWind's Failback includes a proprietary "Fast Sync"
technology that permits to synchronize to the original storage node quickly
instead of performing full synchronization from scratch as most alternative
failback technologies do.
The Fast Sync technology permits failback without requiring a complete
re-sync of the data between the storage nodes. Only the incremental changed
data has to be re-synced once the offline node is back online and ready to
resume normal operations.
Data Asynchronous Replication
Asynchronous replication is important for disaster recovery because it
allows you to copy mission-critical data over the WAN to a secure remote
location. This data can be recovered within a short recovery point and with
minimal disruption.
Replicating data to an offsite location allows you to be up and running
during a disaster. This allows a robust disaster recovery plan to fail over to
a remote site, knowing that your data is intact.
Remote Replication and Backup
·
Replicate data off-site over a WAN using standard
IP/Internet
·
Have data stored remotely for protection
·
Allows for Disaster Recovery planning
CDP and Live, Point-in-Time
Snapshots
StarWind’s Snapshots capture a volume’s state at any point in time. You
can perform the Snapshots manually or have them scheduled. These live,
point-in-time Snapshots are instant and capture a consistent state of the data
you have stored on the SAN.
Point in Time Snapshots
·
Instantly recover and roll back an entire disk volume
or individual files and folders
·
Perform manually or schedule and capture point-in-time
block level copies
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage
for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and
availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent
servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical
applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of
computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is
specifically designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the
addition or removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The
general concept in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that
are members of the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are
running an application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state
communicating with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a
failure. In the event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and
starts running the service or application.
Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a
failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of
a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the
redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows
two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided
using StarWind Enterprise Server.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters
dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage you need today, and add
more storage to the cluster as application data grows. This allows you to raise
storage utilization levels, increase return on investment, and make the
constantly falling price of storage per gigabyte work to your advantage. You
can purchase storage as needed without over-provisioning storage. Thin
Provisioning is implemented consistently and it's the mechanism that makes
Automatic Snapshots, Remote Replication and Synchronous Data Mirroring all
space efficient.
StarWind Thin Provisioning helps you to use storage more efficiently and
allocate only the space that you actually use:
·
Purchase storage as you need it, not in advance
·
Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility
·
Raise utilization, efficiency, and ROI
·
Take advantage of constantly falling prices per
gigabyte
·
Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Applications
Industries
8. StarWind iSCSI Virtual Tape Array Edition
StarWind iSCSI
Virtual Tape Array Edition uses disks to perform fast and reliable tape
backups. StarWind iSCSI Virtual Tape replaces inefficient tape devices and is
more reliable than tape libraries with no need to physically search for tapes
in a warehouse. Virtual tape array considerably improves backup and disaster
recovery by eliminating tape library changer device latency and is scalable to
64 TB tape devices. StarWind iSCSI Virtual Tape allows direct attachment of VTA
to tape drives for archival storage with an unlimited number of virtual tape
cartridges.
Key Features:
·
Integrates with existing Tape Backup infrastructure
·
Replicate Mission Critical Data via a single platform
·
Simplify Disaster Recovery, Backups
·
Better Business Continuity Planning
Compatibility:
·
BakBone NetVault
·
CA
·
Symantec
·
CommVault
Applications
Industries