StarWind Virtual SAN - Free?

[anton_p]

Could you, please, advise me on the following question?

A banner on the StarWind website's main page boasts that Virtual SAN for vSphere is "Totally FREE". A comparison chart in the PDF-document Free vs. Paid (https://www.starwindsoftware.com/styles ... s_Paid.pdf) explicitly confirms that StarWind Virtual SAN Free indeed may be used for production purposes.

However, the license agreement shown during the software installation states otherwise: "StarWind Free ... software is provided for personal and internal use only and may not be used for commercial or production purposes."

My question is if Virtual SAN Free for vSphere can actually be used freely for production or commercial purposes. By commercial purposes I mean not a Service Provider business, but running one's own business applications from Virtual SAN Free for vSphere.

[anton (staff)]

Means EULA is outdated. Thanks for pointing! We'll fix it ASAP.

Could you, please, advise me on the following question?

A banner on the StarWind website's main page boasts that Virtual SAN for vSphere is "Totally FREE". A comparison chart in the PDF-document Free vs. Paid (https://www.starwindsoftware.com/styles ... s_Paid.pdf) explicitly confirms that StarWind Virtual SAN Free indeed may be used for production purposes.

However, the license agreement shown during the software installation states otherwise: "StarWind Free ... software is provided for personal and internal use only and may not be used for commercial or production purposes."

My question is if Virtual SAN Free for vSphere can actually be used freely for production or commercial purposes. By commercial purposes I mean not a Service Provider business, but running one's own business applications from Virtual SAN Free for vSphere.

[anton_p]

That's very good news, thank you.

And what's your company's position regarding the Service Provider business use case? Is it going to be explicitly prohibited for the free version?
Although I do admit that it's extremely imprudent to use an unsupported piece of proprietary software being a Service Provider, I'm just being curious.

[anton (staff)]

Currently we don't limit use cases but I tend to agree you need SLAs (Service Level Agreement) for providers and their critical components like storage.

That's very good news, thank you.

And what's your company's position regarding the Service Provider business use case? Is it going to be explicitly prohibited for the free version?
Although I do admit that it's extremely imprudent to use an unsupported piece of proprietary software being a Service Provider, I'm just being curious.