StarWind iSCSI SAN Software and VMware HA

Starwind 5.0 from StarWind Software, Inc. combines with VMware High Availability (HA) to provide cost-effective, high availability virtual environments to decrease downtime and deliver fast disaster recovery. StarWind and WMware HA are simple to configure and deliver failover and failback protection of mission-critical data with continuous availability, flexibility and substantially lower costs for shared storage.

StarWind’s true active-active high availability (HA) architecture provides continuous and non-disruptive access to storage in the event of failure by synchronously mirroring data between two active storage appliances, or nodes, in real time. This technology is important to IT professionals because it eliminates a single point of failure. If a disk, power or even an entire storage node fails, the redundant storage node will take over and will continue actively operating without any disruption, ensuring that storage is available and accessible on the network.

StarWind software creates a ‘Virtual SAN for VMware’ that can be installed on existing industry-standard servers without additional infrastructure investments. A virtual SAN is ideal for SMBs, or remote offices of large companies, which may have budget limitations and physical space constraints, but have performance requirements that can only be satisfied by a high-performance SAN.

StarWind also enhances data protection in VMware environments with features like mirroring, replication and CDP/snapshot capabilities. It is a solution that grows with a company’s need as capacity is easily added without additional license purchases because StarWind is a software-only solution, installable on any industry-standard server with easily expanded drive bays.