Open source NVMe SPDK for Windows Server is used to support the NVMe-oF uplink protocol, together with iSCSI and iSER.
#Starwind iscsi target free software#
The software acts as the storage back end for virtualized servers such as VMware vSphere server and Microsoft Hyper-V, and also supports standard server applications requiring network storage, such as Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server. Virtual SAN (VSAN) software - HCI software which allows customers to set up and operate a storage area network supporting clustering and multi-host access on any standard 64-bit or 32-bit Windows server.StarWind HyperConverged Appliance - the company's HyperConverged Appliance bundles StarWind's VSAN software with third party server and storage hardware, along with storage management software and hypervisors such as from VMware or Hyper-V.Its software defined storage software supports building iSCSI, iSER, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), and NFSv3/v4 and SMB3 NAS using commodity hardware. StarWind develops standards-based storage virtualization and management software that will run on any x86 platform. In December, StarWind was named to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for HCI software. In February 2020, StarWind's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software StarWind VSAN set performance benchmarks for off the shelf commodity hardware. In April 2016 StarWind was selected by research firm Gartner as one of its 2016 "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms". In August 2015, StarWind announced a combined software-hardware product called HyperConverged Appliance. In mid-April 2014 StarWind Software closed a round B of investment from Almaz Capital and AVentures Capital. In 2013, hard drive manufacturer Western Digital began integrating StarWind's iSCSI engine with some of the company's Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. It started providing early adopters with initially free software defined storage offerings in 2009, including its V2V (virtual-to-virtual) image converter and iSCSI SAN software. (founded in 2003), with a round A of investment from venture capital firm ABRT. StarWind Software began in 2008 as a spin-off from Rocket Division Software, Ltd.