{"id":48278,"date":"2021-03-31T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=48278"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:40:57","slug":"starwind-free-nas-san-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-free-nas-san-software\/","title":{"rendered":"StarWind Free NAS &#038; SAN software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48281 size-full\" title=\"starwind-free-nas-san-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/starwind-free-nas-san-01.jpg\" alt=\"starwind-free-nas-san-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-iscsi-accelerator-load-balancer\/\">StarWind<\/a> Free NAS &amp; SAN is a new software solution for Enterprise ROBO and SMB to implement a shared storage for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V leveraging existing servers.<\/p>\n<p>This fully\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/certifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certified solution<\/a> for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms, allows administrators to <strong>re-use standalone servers<\/strong>\u00a0as a high-performance and high-capacity storage appliance supporting standard protocols like\u00a0<strong>iSCSI, SMB, NFS, and others<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The software is composed by a <strong>ready-to-go Linux appliance VM<\/strong> deployed in your virtual environment (vSphere or Hyper-V) turning an existing server in a compatible and HCL-certified <strong>cost-free storage<\/strong> appliance. The used code is actually the same core engine that made <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-vsan-for-vsphere-for-robo\/\">StarWind Virtual SAN<\/a> a performance leader.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48284 size-large\" title=\"starwind-free-nas-san-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/starwind-free-nas-san-02-600x467.jpg\" alt=\"starwind-free-nas-san-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"section-title2\">StarWind Free NAS &amp; SAN features<\/h2>\n<div class=\"block-benefits v3 flex-grid\">\n<div class=\"block-benefit\">\n<div class=\"block-text-wrap\">\n<div class=\"flex aic title-wrap\">\n<p>This StarWind product provides the following main features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title small color-blue\"><strong>Architecture<\/strong> - StarWind Free NAS &amp; SAN is a prepackaged software solution that comes as a <strong>Linux-based appliance<\/strong>, easy to use and deploy, and compatible with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi. A <strong>web-based GUI<\/strong> allows a simpler management for a better user experience.<\/li>\n<li class=\"title small color-blue\"><strong>HCL Storage<\/strong> - the solution is <strong>fully certified<\/strong> for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere and allows to <strong>re-use existing servers<\/strong> with no hassle of finding and buying compatible hardware for the supported environments.<\/li>\n<li class=\"title small color-blue\"><strong>File and Block Storage<\/strong> - StarWind Free NAS &amp; SAN <strong>supports multiple protocols<\/strong> such as iSCSI including RDMA-capable iSER, NFSv3, NFSv4, SMB3, and SMB Direct. Storage arrays are presented as datastores that can be used to to store virtual machines, backups and file-based data. <strong>Multipathing and load balancing<\/strong> are also supported to perform Live Migration, vMotion, DRS, and so on.<\/li>\n<li class=\"title small color-blue\"><strong>Versatility and Redundancy<\/strong> - the software is compatible with <strong>any hardware<\/strong> and provides software-based storage redundancy configurations to build a redundant storage appliance re-using existing servers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48286 size-large\" title=\"starwind-free-nas-san-03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/starwind-free-nas-san-03-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"starwind-free-nas-san-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Management and support<\/h2>\n<p>To manage <strong>cluster operations<\/strong> and <strong>infrastructure integrations<\/strong> of StarWind Free NAS &amp; SAN, the product comes with different options available to users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web-based UI<\/li>\n<li>Text-based UI<\/li>\n<li>vCenter Plugin<\/li>\n<li>Command-line interface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An <strong>intuitive Dashboard<\/strong> is also available to control storage and network tasks as well events.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48288 size-large\" title=\"starwind-free-nas-san-04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/starwind-free-nas-san-04-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"starwind-free-nas-san-04\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Tech Support<\/h4>\n<p>Tech support for StarWind Free NAS &amp; SAN is provided through the <strong>community<\/strong> via <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.starwindsoftware.com\/viewforum.php?f=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StarWind Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>License<\/h2>\n<p>StarWind Free NAS &amp; SAN is a completely <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-virtual-san-free\/\">free solution<\/a> and it doesn't require <strong>any purchased license<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The StarWind solution can be downloaded at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/free-nas-and-san#download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StarWind website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarWind Free NAS &amp; SAN is a new software solution for Enterprise ROBO and SMB to implement a shared storage for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V leveraging existing servers. This fully\u00a0certified solution for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms, allows administrators to re-use standalone servers\u00a0as a high-performance and high-capacity storage appliance supporting standard protocols like\u00a0iSCSI, SMB, NFS, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1787,903],"tags":[880,2195,2317,1774],"class_list":["post-48278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starwind-en","category-vmware-en","tag-free-en","tag-nas-en-2","tag-san-en","tag-starwind","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}