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StarWind Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) & Software-Defined Storage

StarWind is an HCI vendor focusing on enterprise ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office), SMB, and edge computing solutions, with over a decade of experience in the hyperconvergence field.

  • StarWind HCI Appliance: A turnkey hyperconverged platform integrating compute, storage, networking, virtualization software, and a management layer.
  • StarWind Virtual HCI Appliance: A software version deployable on a user’s own hardware, supporting VMware, Hyper-V, KVM.
  • StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN): Software-defined storage that utilizes internal cluster hard drives (flash and traditional HDDs) to create a virtual storage pool, replacing expensive SAN hardware.
  • Offers Backup Appliance (hardware or software), Virtual Tape Library (hardware or software, ransomware-resilient), NVMe-oF Initiator, etc.
  • Provides free tools (V2V / P2V converter, performance benchmarking, etc.).
  • Emphasizes simplified IT infrastructure, cost savings (no SAN required), high performance and high availability, ease of deployment and management, excellent support services, and flexibility (hardware/software, multi-hypervisor support).

StarWind Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) & Software-Defined Storage

StarWind is an HCI vendor focusing on enterprise ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office), SMB, and edge computing solutions, with over a decade of experience in the hyperconvergence field.

  • StarWind HCI Appliance: A turnkey hyperconverged platform integrating compute, storage, networking, virtualization software, and a management layer.
  • StarWind Virtual HCI Appliance: A software version deployable on a user’s own hardware, supporting VMware, Hyper-V, KVM.
  • StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN): Software-defined storage that utilizes internal cluster hard drives (flash and traditional HDDs) to create a virtual storage pool, replacing expensive SAN hardware.
  • Offers Backup Appliance (hardware or software), Virtual Tape Library (hardware or software, ransomware-resilient), NVMe-oF Initiator, etc.
  • Provides free tools (V2V / P2V converter, performance benchmarking, etc.).
  • Emphasizes simplified IT infrastructure, cost savings (no SAN required), high performance and high availability, ease of deployment and management, excellent support services, and flexibility (hardware/software, multi-hypervisor support).