# StarWind

> StarWind develops software-defined storage and hyperconverged appliances for small and midsize organizations, enterprise branch offices, and edge sites. Its Virtual SAN mirrors local storage between servers to provide highly available shared storage without a separate physical SAN. It became part of DataCore in May 2025.

- **Founded:** 2003
- **Headquarters:** Beverly, United States
- **Founders:** Anton Kolomyeytsev (Co-founder; CEO, CTO and chief architect on the company management page), Artem Berman (Co-founder; historically COO)
- **Products:** StarWind Virtual SAN, StarWind HCI Appliance, StarWind Virtual HCI Appliance, StarWind Virtual Tape Library, StarWind Backup Appliance
- **Notable:** Acquired by DataCore in May 2025., StarWind reports more than 63,800 customers and over 300 published success stories., Named a Customers’ Choice in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report, according to its November 2023 announcement.

## Products & services

- **StarWind Virtual SAN** — Software-defined, replicated shared storage using server-local disks and flash for supported virtualization platforms.
- **StarWind HCI Appliance** — Turnkey hardware and software combining compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and management; high availability starts with two nodes.
- **StarWind Virtual HCI Appliance** — Pre-packaged appliance software stack for deployment on customer-owned hardware.
- **StarWind Virtual Tape Library** — Emulates tape libraries and connects backup workflows to disk and cloud storage.
- **StarWind Backup Appliance** — Integrated backup platform, with a virtual appliance option for customer-owned hardware.
- **StarWind V2V / P2V Converter** — Free conversion utility for virtual machine images and physical-to-virtual migration.
- **StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator** — NVMe over Fabrics connectivity software for Windows.
- **StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services** — Free, open-source storage plugin providing thin provisioning, snapshots, and linked clones on generic SAN storage. April 2026 documentation date is not a confirmed launch date.
- **Deployment assistance and ProActive Premium support** — Commercial deployments include setup assistance; optional premium service adds continuous monitoring and early issue detection.

## Achievements

- Acquired by DataCore in May 2025.
- StarWind reports more than 63,800 customers and over 300 published success stories.
- Named a Customers’ Choice in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report, according to its November 2023 announcement.
- EIMCo’s vendor-published case reports approximately USD 20,000 avoided versus alternative hardware; Ciena Healthcare’s reports over USD 80,000 saved upfront versus VMware vSAN.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — September 18 release notes describe a Debian-based VSAN appliance migration path and changes to NVMe-oF high availability, management, and hypervisor integration.
- **2026-05** — May 29 release notes announce general availability of NVMe-oF LUN support, including HA configurations.
- **2026-04** — April 23 installation guide documents the StarLvm plugin for shared block storage in Proxmox VE 8 and 9.
- **2025-05** — DataCore announced its acquisition of StarWind on May 21; the announcement does not disclose a price.

## Links

- Website: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/starwindinc/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/starwindsan
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfFAddl0AQ
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StarWind.Software/

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Last updated: 2026-10-24