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Greg Shields

How to Create HA Shared Storage and Save Money

Critical vSphere Applications

“All roads lead to Rome.”

Liber Parabolarum, 591 (1175), by Alain de Lille

all roads lead to Storage.”

This Webinar, by Greg Shields

“Withvirtualization,

HA/DRS Clusters

Windows Failover Clusters

Redundant Networking

Converged Everything

High Availability

Without 100% storage uptime,

a storage failure = a total environment failure.

Cost-effective.

Highly available.

RAM caching.

Log structuring.

Data deduplication.

An Expert Conversation

Greg ShieldsAuthor Evangelist

Pluralsight

Max KolomyeytsevProduct Manager

StarWind Software

• entirely software-based, VM-centric virtual machine storage, which basically “mirrors” internal

hard disk, flash memory, and RAM between hypervisor hosts

StarWind Virtual SAN is…

before after

• eliminates any need for physical shared storage like iSCSI, FC, SAS JBOD, or NAS and

seamlessly integrates into the hypervisor.

• Complete fault tolerance with just 2 servers

• Zero hardware footprint

• VM-Centric storage design

• No SSD drives necessary

• Maximize Disk Performance

• No 10 GbE switching necessary

• Dramatically reduced CapEx and OpEx

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StarWind Virtual SAN – hardware-less storage

Show me how it works with just 2 hosts