Software that provides a virtualized storage infrastructure that maximizes performance, scalability and reliability.
StarWind is a shareware networking app and developed by Rocket Division Software for Windows.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Windows iSCSI target with rich supported physical and virtual hardware list
This software combined with StarPort iSCSI initiator running on client allows you to export any local CD and DVD burners to the network users, export local tape drives for backup and restore on client machine, "redirect" virtual hard disk drives over the network, export whole server storage subsystem over the network at the block level, work with the dynamic volume snapshots, incremental backups and virtual tapes etc.
Features of StarWind
- CDP (Continuous Data Protection): CDP provides a replication mechanism to ensure an RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of zero data loss for applications that require a lower RPO than asynchronous replication can provide.
- Data Deduplication: Data Deduplication is a specialized mechanism of data-compression that allows reducing needed storage capacity due to the process of eliminating duplicated data.
- Failback with Fast Synchronization: Failback to an original system after an automatic failover.
- High Availability / Automatic Failover: Fault tolerant active-active technology eliminates a single point of failure.
- Remote / Asynchronous Replication: Replicates your storage to a remote site across a WAN.
- Snapshots & Clones: Capture point-in-time snapshots with unlimited rollback points or make full volume copies.
- Synchronous Data Mirroring: Real-time data replication across a 2 node storage cluster.
- Thin Provisioning: Allocate space dynamically for highly efficient disk utilization.
Compatibility and License
This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from network software and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The StarWind 3.5.5 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software. on newer versions of Windows like Windows 11 and Windows 10 but more likely to be stable on older versions of the operating system with Vista and XP coming to mind. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
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