StarWind iSCSI SAN Free is an iSCSI Target that converts any Windows server into a

reliable and scalable Storage Area Network at no cost!

The StarWind iSCSI SAN Free Edition provides a number of powerful utilities for creating a SAN in your
existing network and server infrastructure and is a free limited-feature version of the paid editions of
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS.
Why choose free StarWind software?

ZERO investments

Reliable data protection

Easy setup and use

Whats inside?

High Availability of your data

NEW

Unlimited storage capacity for a single-node device

Global Data Deduplication

Free Edition is limited to:

128 GB of HA storage capacity

NO Asynchronous Replication over WAN

NO SPTI and NAS/SAN Cluster File Share

Basic technical support only via community forums, no guaranteed response

The chart below is meant for a quick and detailed comparison between the StarWind iSCSI SAN Free
Edition and the StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS Editions.
StarWind iSCSI SAN Free
The diference between free and paid editions
EASY UPGRADE
You can easily upgrade
the Free Edition to a paid
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS
version simply install a
license key.
The paid editions require
a valid license key, and
are limited to the storage
capacity in the license key.
Creation of a shared storage
today ensures reliable data
protection and disaster
recovery tomorrow, so start
deploying your storage now!
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FEATURES AND
CAPABILITIES
iSCSI SAN
FREE EDITION
iSCSI SAN &
NAS EDITIONS
DETAILS
Storage capacity
Unlimited
(for single-
node device)
128 GB (for HA)
1 TB-512 TB
Depending on your storage requirements, you can create as
large storage as you need for keeping your data.
Cache size 512 MB Unlimited
Free Edition is limited in cache size (512 MB), while the
cache size of iSCSI SAN & NAS Editions is limited only by the
available physical memory of your servers.
Centralized
management
StarWind Management Console
Both free and paid licenses provide a Management Console
that allows for easy and intuitive management of the
StarWind storage.
# of servers per
license
2 2 or 3
Free Edition allows for installation on 2 servers and the
creation of HA storage with capacity of 128 GB.
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS license covers 2 or 3 servers and
creates HA storage with capacity limited only to the amount
youve purchased.
# of concurrent
iSCSI connections
Unlimited
Both free and paid editions provide unlimited number of
concurrent iSCSI connections.
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FEATURE
iSCSI SAN
FREE EDITION
iSCSI SAN &
NAS EDITIONS
DETAILS
# of Ethernet ports Unlimited
Both free and paid editions provide unlimited number of
Ethernet ports.
# of served disk
drives
Unlimited Both versions provide an unlimited number of served disk drives.
Technical support
Limited
Basic Support
Full
Standard or
Premium
Support Plan
Basic technical support for the Free Edition is provided through
the open public community forum on a best eort basis.
The paid editions include one year of Standard Technical
Support, providing support assistance through forum,
phone, e-mail with a response time of 4-12 hours. The
Standard Technical Support can be upgraded to Premium for
an additional fee.
Active-Active
high availability
Provides HA shared storage with active-active (active) failover
and failback with the fast synchronization of your data.
* Free Edition oers HA device with the storage capacity
limited to 128 GB only.
Asynchronous
WAN-replication
Enhances your DR plan and creates the copy of your data on
a remote site that you may use for disaster recovery.
NAS/SAN
cluster fle share
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS Editions build multiprotocol
centralized storage that manages both le-based (NAS) and
block-level (SAN) data.
Disk bridge
Disk bridge completes emulation of the SCSI layer that allows
any type of hard drives (PATA/SATA/RAID) to be used by
remote initiator clients.
SPTI
SPTI is an API that provides the ability to connect to a server
and export, via an iSCSI network, any physical SCSI-device
(hard disk, tape, or optical drive, etc.).
Image fle
Image le device enables the creation of virtual iSCSI hard
drives within a regular disk le.
CDP/Snapshots
Capture block level changes of a volume state at any point in
time with an unlimited number of rollback points.
Thin provisioning
Allocates an exact amount of disk space required at the
current moment for writing data to storage.
High speed caching
Signicantly accelerates the storage I/O performance by
using the systems memory instead of waiting for disks to
read and write blocks.
Monitoring &
notifcation services
Provides various services for monitoring of processes taking
place in a SAN and timely notication about relevant events.
Data deduplication
Eliminates the duplicated data blocks from the les sent to
storage thus reducing the disk space requirements.
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