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Scale Out Freely: No Hardware Lock-in

Max Kolomyeytsev

StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager

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About Max

• StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager

• 8+ years of QA and technical support @ StarWind

• 10+ of professional IT experience

• Host of the StarWind Webinar series

Agenda

• Tell attendees they now have a chance to win

• Ways of growing IT infrastructure

• Scale up, why it’s not an (only) option?

• Scale-Out caveats

• StarWind Virtual SAN Scale-Out

• Q & A

• Wrap up

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Ways of growing your IT infrastructure

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• Scale up – Growing compute power by adding RAM, NICs,

and Disks to an individual application server

• Scale out – grow compute power by adding application

servers to the environment

Scale-Up

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Scale-Up

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Scale-Out caveats

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• Minimum configuration starts with 3 Servers

• Hardware vendor lock in

• Hardware configuration lock in

Only one brand

How is StarWind Scale-Out different

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• Fault tolerance with just 2 Servers

• No Hardware vendor lock in

• No hardware configuration lock in

Brands of your choice

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How is StarWind Scale-Out different

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Time for your questions!

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Download

StarWind Virtual SAN 30-Day Trial here:

www.starwind.com/starwind-virtual-san/

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