StarWind Native SAN 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 Native SAN HA 16TB license permits installation on one HA cluster with two active-active nodes. The license 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 data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery. 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 two-node storage cluster which ensures a highly reliable and fault tolerant storage where both cluster nodes serve I/O requests at the same time on an equal basis, so no downtime for node switch is present. It differs greatly from the other software and hardware SAN solutions with active-passive capabilities only.
In StarWind's Active-Active Failover system, storage data is load balanced across the storage nodes (or storage appliances) and, in the event of a failure, storage traffic that was originally intended for the first (failed) node is routed to the other node. These two storage nodes or appliances continuously monitor each other and, in case of a failure, the second node automatically assumes the workload without any manual intervention from the IT administrator.
StarWind Native SAN HA 16 TB Edition 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 single point of failure.
Failback with Fast Synchronization
StarWind's Failback restores the failed storage node to its original state before failure. After the failure, StarWind will automatically failover to the redundant storage node. When the first (failed) storage node is back online the system can failback and synchronize data between the nodes.
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 that doesn’t require 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 feature plays a major role in creation of a robust disaster recovery plan.
Remote Replication and Backup
• Replicates data off-site over a WAN using standard IP/Internet
• Allows to 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 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
• Can be performed manually or scheduled
Server Clusters
In its Native SAN for Hyper-V solution StarWind introduced its unique two-node configuration.
In order to create a failover configuration in your virtual environment two servers are used which serve as storage nodes and failover cluster nodes at the same time. This redundancy ensures High Availability and fault-tolerance of your storage on the one hand and substantially reduces costs you need to invest into creation of two-node configuration on the other hand.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage space 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.
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
• MS Hyper-V Server
• MS SQL Server
• MS Exchange Server
Industries
• Commercial
• Financial Services
• Heathcare
• Government
• SMB
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 data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery. 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 two-node storage cluster which ensures a highly reliable and fault tolerant storage where both cluster nodes serve I/O requests at the same time on an equal basis, so no downtime for node switch is present. It differs greatly from the other software and hardware SAN solutions with active-passive capabilities only.
In StarWind's Active-Active Failover system, storage data is load balanced across the storage nodes (or storage appliances) and, in the event of a failure, storage traffic that was originally intended for the first (failed) node is routed to the other node. These two storage nodes or appliances continuously monitor each other and, in case of a failure, the second node automatically assumes the workload without any manual intervention from the IT administrator.
StarWind Native SAN HA 16 TB Edition 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 single point of failure.
Failback with Fast Synchronization
StarWind's Failback restores the failed storage node to its original state before failure. After the failure, StarWind will automatically failover to the redundant storage node. When the first (failed) storage node is back online the system can failback and synchronize data between the nodes.
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 that doesn’t require 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 feature plays a major role in creation of a robust disaster recovery plan.
Remote Replication and Backup
• Replicates data off-site over a WAN using standard IP/Internet
• Allows to 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 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
• Can be performed manually or scheduled
Server Clusters
In its Native SAN for Hyper-V solution StarWind introduced its unique two-node configuration.
In order to create a failover configuration in your virtual environment two servers are used which serve as storage nodes and failover cluster nodes at the same time. This redundancy ensures High Availability and fault-tolerance of your storage on the one hand and substantially reduces costs you need to invest into creation of two-node configuration on the other hand.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning, combined with the ability to scale storage clusters dynamically, allows you to purchase only the storage space 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.
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
• MS Hyper-V Server
• MS SQL Server
• MS Exchange Server
Industries
• Commercial
• Financial Services
• Heathcare
• Government
• SMB
