Adding StarWind to Western Digital Sentinel server

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billk
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:05 pm

We are looking at buying a Western digital sentinel 8 TB server for backups of our existing shared file systems and was wondering if we could add StarWind to this server. It runs Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and I can remote desktop into the server, however, the processor and memory are not the greatest. I have read somewhere that I could add more memory to the box if I take it apart, but curious if it is possible to run starwind on top instead of the western digital user interface.
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Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:33 pm

If you are running Windiws there - you can install StarWind on it.

Just make sure two tgings (just to start):
1.That hardware will be enough (you can find information about our System Requirements here). It shouldn`t be to big deal if hardware will be just a little bit weaker.
2.Our SAN solution is using 3260 and 3261 ports by default, so make sure that they`ll be opened or configure SW to work on another ports (change config file and restart the service).
Best regards,
Anatoly Vilchinsky
Global Engineering and Support Manager
www.starwind.com
av@starwind.com
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Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:13 pm

With the most recent WDC update StarWind is now part of a Sentinel firmware:

http://support.wdc.com/download/notes/W ... .pdf?r=910

Congratulations!
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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