- #STARWIND VIRTUAL SAN FREE DOWNLOAD FOR FREE#
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- #STARWIND VIRTUAL SAN FREE DOWNLOAD INSTALL#
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#STARWIND VIRTUAL SAN FREE DOWNLOAD HOW TO#
I have step by step instructions on How to Build a NetApp Simulator ONTAP 9 Lab
VMware ESXi, Workstation family, or Citrix Xen.Runs on Debian Linux which is included in installationĭocumentation including the Installation Guide.The Community Edition has a 40TB capacity limit and a renewable 2 year free licence.ĭownload Link (Enter email on page to request Community Edition licence) QuantaStor supports iSCSI, Fibre Channel (if you have a Qlogic HBA), NFS, SMB and Object Storage. VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V or Windows Serverĭownload Link (Guest Login Account Required).StarWind supports NFS and SMB NAS protocols in addition to iSCSI SAN. Installation and First Time Setup Wizard videos
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You can install it bare metal or in your choice of virtual machineĭownload Link (No Login Account Required) Storage Simulators and VSA Virtual Storage AppliancesįreeNAS supports iSCSI SAN in addition to NFS and SMB NAS protocols. I’ve listed the login and system requirements for each option below.
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The software is all free but may require a customer or partner account with the vendor to download. These aren’t suitable for a lab but are useful if you want to explore the look and feel of a particular vendor’s storage GUI. I’ve also listed GUI demos at the bottom of the list.
If you want the simplest option to get up and running for studying a hypervisor technology like VMware vSphere, use FreeNAS or StarWind.Where the same vendor has multiple simulators available, I’ve listed their newest and most lab friendly option first. If you want your lab to mimic your organisation’s production environment as closely as possible, then pick the VSA or simulator from your storage vendor.It’s a pretty big list, so here’s some advice if you don’t know which one to choose:
#STARWIND VIRTUAL SAN FREE DOWNLOAD FOR FREE#
I’ve compiled a list of where you can find storage simulators and Virtual Storage Appliances for free below. List of VSA Virtual Storage Appliances, Storage Simulators, SAN and NAS Demos Want a complete storage course for free? Watch my Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage Unless you have more money than you know what to do with, you’re probably going to want to keep the storage costs down by using a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) or storage simulator. You’re already going to have to shell out for compute hardware and any network infrastructure devices which can’t be virtualised. And it’s a definite requirement if you’re studying hypervisor technologies such as VMware vSphere. If you want to learn how cloud and data center technologies work as a whole however you’re going to need dedicated external storage such as a storage simulator or VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance). If you’re focused on studying or testing only an individual application, operating system or the network infrastructure then you can probably get away with no more storage than the local hard drive in your PC. Where to Download and How to Set Up Free Storage Simulators and VSA Virtual Storage Appliancesįor your lab you’re going to need compute (the servers), networking (routers and switches etc.) and storage.