StarWind SAN & NAS
starwindsoftware.com
Spec sheet
- Purpose
- The software turns one server or a group of servers into a shared storage appliance, deployable as a VM or on bare metal.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Audience
- StarWind describes it for organizations with low budgets and restricted IT resources that want to make efficient use of their hardware.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Support
- The product page advertises free migration assistance, remote troubleshooting, support SLAs under one hour, and optional ProActive Premium Support with 24/7/365 monitoring.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Headquarters
- Beverly, Massachusetts, USARead 28 Sep 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Founded
- 2009Read 28 Sep 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Architecture
- The product is Linux-based and built on ZFS and StarWind Virtual SAN.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Backup integrations
- StarWind describes the product as a Veeam hardened backup repository and a backup target for CommVault and Veritas.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Latest documented integrations
- The release archive lists Veeam Hardened Repository integration in December 2022 and VMware VMFS datastore integration in June 2022.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Management
- The product provides a web UI, text-based UI, vCenter plugin, and command-line interface.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Pricing
- The product page links to a pricing request; StarWind's pricing page says it does not list standard prices because pricing is customized.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Product status
- StarWind labels SAN & NAS a legacy product.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Protocols
- The storage appliance supports NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Resilience
- The page describes high availability and fault tolerance for shared storage, and says users can select ZFS, hardware RAID, or Linux MD/RAID for local-disk redundancy.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Security and integrity
- StarWind says the Linux-based product uses ZFS features for data safety and data integrity, and describes its Veeam repository as ransomware-proof.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Updates
- The SAN & NAS release-notes archive lists its latest release as June 26, 2023, and labels the archive a legacy product.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
- Virtualization
- The product page names VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, and Xen virtual machines as shared-storage use cases.Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
Plans and prices
StarWind SAN & NAS Priced on request Legacy product; contact StarWind for pricing Read 8 Oct 2026 · starwindsoftware.com
Where Specifiction places it
- NAS Software#21 of 217.2
