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StarWind Server: SAN Made Simple

September 11, 2009 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments

StarWind iSCSI Storage VirtualizationStarWind Software approached Sallie about writing a review about their products and guess who got to play around with it instead? Yep, me, the guy known as Ur-Guru. Why? Oh, because I happen to have some servers sitting around that would make a good SAN. Before I continue I have to say that even though my home office comes close to what you might find in a small enterprise or rack server I have very little need for a SAN (Storage Area Network), because every single system is already loaded up with many terabytes of fast RAID storage. A SAN, regardless of the size, speed, and cost, would always be slower than the local storage of each system.

However, if I wanted to centralize the storage for the systems in the network, whereby the systems themselves were smaller, less top-heavy computers, I would certainly be looking at something like StarWind Server or StarWind Enterprise Server (probably the latter because I like the replication features). Also, if I were to overhaul the way my virtual machines are managed and stored throughout my network, and if I wanted to create a single cluster of systems to run that, StarWind would certainly get an even closer look.

So what is StarWind Server, you might ask. If you’ve familiarized yourself with the concept of a SAN, the short version of the story is that StarWind Server is a software product that turns a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server into a fully capable iSCSI SAN system.

Read the rest of this story over at Sallie’s blog.

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Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: iSCSI, RAID, Review, SAN, Servers, Software, StarWind, Storage, Virtualization, Visualization, Windows

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  1. Dennis Klein says:
    September 11, 2009 at 12:54

    Seems like StarWindSoftware needs does need some “Blog-Propaganda” 😉 I also received an eMail from them, delivering me a test-version of their Enterprise server and asked me to write a review about it, which I have planned for this weekend.

    I’ve already played around with it and I’m excited how well it works cross-platforms. I’ve created a test-iSCSI target for my MacBook and was able to format and use it as a regular HFS+ volume.

    But more exciting is the usage of this on my Windows 7 workstation: It’s damn fast and a bit faster than Samba2; around 100-120MByte/s.

    I think late Sunday, I will be publish my own blog post about this on my blog.

    PS. Stefan, I think I write this more for your readers, because I’ve told you about this in my last eMail 😉

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  2. Helmut says:
    November 26, 2009 at 07:37

    Agree to Dennis – it works perfectly and really fast.

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