StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V 6.0

The Right Tool to Run Hyper-V

Creative Services2014 Global Marketing & Enablement

Max Craft

Microsoft SQL Server Cluster

deployment price reduced by 3 times

with StarWind Virtual SAN

Max KolomyeytsevStarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager

StarWind At-A-Glance

Leading Storage Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Software

� Ownership: Privately held since 2003

� Product: StarWind™ storage virtualization software

� Users: 30,000+ customers in over 100 countries

� Headquarters: Burlington, MA, USA

� R&D office in Europe

� Support: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support Infrastructure

� Global Channel: Two-tier indirect sales channel, VARS & System Integrators

� Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, HP, IBM, Dell, VEEAM

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About Max Kolomyeytsev

� StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager

� 8+ years of QA and technical support experience @ StarWind Software

� 10+ of professional IT experience

� Host of the StarWind Webinar series

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Agenda

• Microsoft SQL Server Clustering introduction

• AlwaysOn

• Native “Shared nothing” HA capabilities

• Alternative ways of clustering

• How does storage virtualization change the game?

• Q&A

Microsoft SQL Server Clustering introduction

Subject of today’s discussion

• Used by millions of businesses around the world

• Is IO hungry, luckily with predictable appetites

• Needs protection but mostly prefers to be AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn

Synchronous Replication

(availability replicas)

Asynchronous replication

(Log shipping)

SAN-based clustering

(FCI)

*Full AlwaysOn support available only with SQL Server 2014 Enterprise license

AlwaysOn without shared storage

Shared nothing approach with Availability Groups &

Log shipping

AlwaysOn FCI

SQL Server HA using Windows Server failover clustering and shared storage

AlwaysOn FCI

Pro’s of the Standard license use• Flexible licensing (per core or per server+CAL)

• Cost effective

• Part of the AlwaysOn functionality available

Con’s of the Standard license use• Shared storage required for HA

• Hardware utilization limited, certain features unavailable

What does StarWind Virtual SAN change?

Same AlwaysOn FCI cluster with shared storage virtualized by StarWind Virtual SAN

What does StarWind Virtual SAN change?

• Deployment price is reduced 3 times*

• Ease of configuration and management

• Maximized performance because of short IO path

• Disk and RAM level FT using just standard SQL licensing

• Smaller performance penalty during backups

StarWind At-A-Glance

Leading Storage Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Software

� Ownership: Privately held since 2003

� Product: StarWind™ storage virtualization software

� Users: 30,000+ customers in over 100 countries

� Headquarters: Burlington, MA, USA

� R&D office in Europe

� Support: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support Infrastructure

� Global Channel: Two-tier indirect sales channel, VARS & System Integrators

� Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, HP, IBM, Dell, VEEAM

Contact Us!

Download StarWind Virtual SAN 30-Day Trial here:www.starwind.com/starwind-virtual-san/

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