I don't have to monkey with it or do anything. However, for the most part, it is all hands off.
#Starwind virtual san free windows#
I go in every couple weeks just to check if there are any Windows updates for it. I rarely, if ever, have to go into the StarWind servers. That is what I like about good IT software.
When things happen fast and snappy, it is a huge bonus in the user's eyes.
It seems user systems and interfaces have gotten so slow over the last 10 to 15 years. It is not sitting there, twiddling its thumbs, waiting for stuff to come up, which is huge. When you open windows, they instantly pop up. It was absolutely a night and day difference. I went from a drive system that peaked out at 2000 IOPS to a system that could now do over 200,000 IOPS. When we put it together the StarWind Virtual SAN, and we moved it onto the flash drives, everything seemed to run a lot faster. It was by far the slowest, clunkiest system that we have here. It handles our orders, workflow, and shop work orders. The system that we moved onto it is our ERP system, which handles everything. It is more of a perceptual thing with the users. Having a second unit replicating is providing us with the availability that we need to make sure our virtual machines have the storage connected they need to be operational. By having StarWind, we're able to minimize maintenance impact and coordinating different support to be available around those timeframes. We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown, and it's easier to schedule with Dell EMC or whoever else to make sure that they're available for any support during that process. We are able to do a lot of our maintenance during production hours, rather than having to schedule after hours. By having StarWind with a two-node device, we're able to replicate storage and then we can do updates, maintenance, and repairs, without having to bring down our entire storage platform. Originally, we just had a single point of failure for storage. It provides some fault-tolerance redundancy. When I did some tests with StarWind, I stopped looking for anything more. StarWind was the first system I found that gave me hope. Simply, I was looking for a solution using Google. Why have we selected StarWind among other storage solutions? Actually, I don’t know why. We were looking for a relatively simple and not very expensive solution. What we needed was the system with no data loss in case of issues and with no interruption (or only several seconds of interruption) in data processing. We, of course, had backups, but it was not enough. We always were afraid that once upon a time our SAN will stop to work. But we needed a redundant storage system. As a single system, SAN was not redundant. The cluster could be fully redundant, but this redundancy is worth nothing without a redundant storage system. Every part of the system was redundant except for SAN.Įvery cluster server system we know needs shared storage system. One of them was a working clustered SQL server with database mirroring.
Before, we used a cluster of two Windows servers with shared storage system on a single SAN.
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