StarWind Virtual SAN is software that eliminates the need for physical shared storage infrastructure by mirroring internal hard disks and flash between servers. It reduces capital and operational costs for SMBs, ROBOs, and cloud/hosting providers by starting with just two nodes and scaling out infinitely without dedicated SAN/NAS hardware. Performance is maintained through proprietary technologies like adaptive caching and deduplication that reduce I/O paths compared to traditional storage networks.

1. StarWind Virtual SAN™
Hardware-less VM storage

2. For
• SMBs (more small than middle),
• ROBOs (Enterprises ROBOs with a lot of locations),
• Cloud and Hosting providers,
who look to cut down virtualization expenses (CapEx and
OpEx) and optimize ROI.

3. Our product is a software which eliminates any need in
physical shared storage…

4. …by basically “mirroring” internal hard disks and flash
between servers.

5. StarWind Virtual SAN starts with as few as only 2 nodes…

6. …and does Scale-Out to infinity.

7. CapEx is reduced because there is no dedicated SAN or NAS
purchased and put into production life cycle.
OpEx is reduced because there is less hardware to maintain,
less power supply and cooling consumed, less upgrade and
EOL, less datacenter space occupied.
ROI is optimized because all deployed servers are used more
efficiently: virtualization and storage workloads are combined.

8. Lower capital and operational costs don’t compromise
performance thanks to:
• In-house developed technologies,
• Patented algorithms (Adaptive Caching, Inter-node
Tiering, In-line Deduplication, Log-Structured File System),
• Reduced I/O path – virtualization layer “talks” to storage
bypassing network for most of the I/O operations.

9. now hardware appliances themselves are becoming more
of a niche.
StarWind was one of a first to push Software Defined
Storage and Hyper-Converged concepts out from a “Test &
Development” niche right to production mainstream
dominated by hardware storage appliances, and

10. Unlike VMware Virtual SAN,
our solutions starts with only two nodes and can be
installed on exactly as many as needed.

11. Unlike Microsoft Storage Spaces (including Shared
Nothing) and Scale-Out File Server concept,
our solution supports hyper-converged model and
does Shared Nothing with just two nodes.

12. Unlike open-source Software Defined Storage,
our solution runs inside hypervisor and is completely in-
house developed.

13. Unlike proprietary hardware SAN and NAS,
our solution has the ability to run hardware-less, has
perpetual licenses, and provides no lock-in-hardware.

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