StarWind Software now offers their leading iSCSI SAN software – a fully functional basic version – at no cost. This new Free version permits an unlimited number of connections and a very large capacity of 2TB.
StarWind ISCSI Target Free version installs on any standard 64-bit or 32-bit Windows server and converts it into a fully-functional and blazingly fast SAN, offering shared storage to any applications on the network.
Key Features of StarWind Free Version include:
- Large 2 TB capacity
- Support for Server Clusters with VMware ESX and ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V
- Unlimited number of supported concurrent iSCSI connections
- Compression, Encryption and CHAP authentication
- iSCSI RAM disk for network performance tuning
- iSCSI CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD emulation
- Intuitive GUI, easy to install and manage
StarWind iSCSI Server can be downloaded for free from http://www.starwindsoftware.com/free
Funny all this talk about alternatives, I think people are just getting anxious for OpenMediaVault, and can’t bear to wait any longer.
I myself have researched and tried a few. I may stick with FreeNAS for now, but tempted to just wait for OMV – but with lack of time-lines/schedule it’s hard looking at my new box with nothing to run on it.