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StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN)

The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Fully integrated, cost-effective & secure virtual enterprise solution with support for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) optimized for ease-of-management & enhanced resource utilization.
StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

What is StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN)

StoneFly virtual SAN or vSAN solution is a storage hypervisor that virtualizes storage resources and enables users to effectively leverage storage capacities for virtual block mode storage.

WIth support for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Citrix (or XenServer) hypervisors, the vSAN solution recognizes iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) protocols making it compatible with most mainstream servers and purpose-built HCI appliances.

StoneFly vSAN solution is also the only virtual SAN in the market that supports multiple hypervisors and clouds like Azure, AWS, etc.

Benefits of StoneFly Virtual SAN Solution

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Less Cost - Better Performance

Our vSAN solution costs less but performs better than the competition with state-of-the-art data services and features

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Cloud

Deploy StoneFly vSAN in Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud and/or other clouds. Our vSAN supports multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud deployments

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Easy-to-Manage

Easily manage your virtual block mode storage across multiple hypervisors, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments with a single centralized management GUI 

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Multi-Hypervisor

Deploy StoneFly vSAN on Hyper-V, VMware, KVM & Citrix (or XenServer) hypervisors and build your virtual SAN on the environment you’re comfortable with

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) Product Brief

Explore the capabilities, compatibility, features and data services of our vSAN solution  

Top 5 Reasons to Use StoneFly Virtual SAN Solution

Ransomware-Proof DataStorage

Provision ransomware-proof immutable and air-gapped virtual data storage volumes using availble storage resources. Set policies to automatically isolate air-gapped volumes from the production network.

Data stored in immutable and air-gapped volumes cannot be edited, deleted, or overwritten. This protects your business-critical VMware VMs from ransomware attacks, human error, virus, and other malicious actors.

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution
StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

vSAN with Multi-Hypervisor Support

Compatibility is not an issue with our virtual SAN solution. That’s because our vSAN can be deployed on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Citrix (or XenServer) hypervisors. This flexibility enables our customers to build their virtual block storage using the virtualization they’re comfortable with.

The StoneFly virtual SAN solution also supports on-premises and cloud deployments with support for enterprise servers (Dell EMC, HPE, StoneFly HCI appliances) and Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud respectively.

Full Control Over Your Data & Virtual Storage

StoneFly virtual SAN solution uses a centralized management interface that offers real-time graphical performance reporting with useful insights about CPU usage, network usage, storage usage, and more. The simplified management and advanced reporting puts data owners in full control of their vSAN data.

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution
StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Fully Use Your Storage Capacities

With StoneFly’s enterprise storage hypervisor, users can effectively virtualize and use all available storage resources even if they’re on different hosts or different nodes in the cluster.

The ability to fully utilize available storage resources also reduces data center footprint. With our vSAN, users can use all unused storage space before having to purchase new hardware appliances and switches.

Our virtual SAN solutions supports all kinds of iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) infrastructures.

Cloud-Like Performance

Get the performance and affordability of the cloud with StoneFly virtual SAN solution. The experience is the same as running your block mode workloads (relational databases, EHR, CRM, etc.) in the cloud but without latency, file size and bandwidth concerns.

With the virtual SAN solution, your IT infrastructure will need less hardware, less switches, and consequently less maintenance thereby greatly reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improving the Return on Investments (ROIs).

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Top 4 Reasons to Use StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) Solution

 

Learn more about why StoneFly vSAN solution is a good fit for your enterprise environment

 

Unique Virtual Storage Features of StoneFly vSAN

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Scale Out Block Storage

Start small and scale out to score hundreds of terabytes of mission-critical data
StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Automated Tiering

Configure hardware & software performance and cost-effective storage tiers and define policies to automatically transfer data between pre-defined block storage tiers

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Data Deduplication

Deduplicate copies of data and reduce storage capacity consumption while enhancing storage efficiency and cost-effectiveness

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Enterprise-Grade Storage Features of StoneFly vSAN

 

Get the complete list of integrated and advanced features of StoneFly virtual SAN (vSAN) solution

 

Protect Your vSAN Data with Military-Grade Security

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Guaranteed Security

Built-in anti-ransomware, anti-virus and anti-malware for advanced & automated data protection
StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Ensure High Availability

Leverage geo-replication, sync & async replication to ensure high availability

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Immutable Storage

Secure business-critical data with WORM (Write-Once Read-Many) storage provisioning and immutable read-only snapshots

Ransomware-Proof vSAN Solution 

 

Explore the military-grade data security features of StoneFly virtual SAN (vSAN) solution that ensure data loss prevention, high availability, and business continuity

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

StoneFly vSAN Deployment Options

StoneFly virtual SAN (vSAN) solution is a software-defined hardware agnostic solution. That implies that it supports a variety of deployment options including: 

  •  On-Premises HCI Appliances – StoneFly vSAN can be deployed on HCI appliance clusters running VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Citrix (formerly XenServer) hypervisors. 
  • Cloud / Serverless – The enterprise vSAN solution can also be deployed on Azure, AWS, other S3 compatible clouds and StoneFly private cloud for a completely serverless virtual block storage experience.
StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Traditional SAN Virtualization

Modernize your bare-metal servers with state-of-the-art virtualization technology

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Build Your Own HCI Solution

Build your HCI solution your way with your choice of hypervisor and cloud

StoneFly Virtual SAN (vSAN) - The Most Powerful Software Defined Virtual SAN Solution

Pre-Configured HCI Appliance

Let StoneFly take care of all of your needs with a pre-configured HCI appliance that delivers the plug and play experience

Customer Success Stories

Learn how StoneFly customers turned their data management and block data storage challenges into an advantage with StoneFly vSAN

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What are the recommended hardware specifications for StoneFly vSAN?

CPU: 4 vCPUs

Hard Disk: 32GB

RAM: 8GB (Reserved)

Can I deploy StoneFly vSAN in the cloud?

StoneFly vSAN can be deployed in Azure, Amazon S3, any other S3 compatible cloud and StoneFly private cloud. 

Our vSAN solution also supports multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments. 

Which hypervisors does StoneFly vSAN support?

StoneFly vSAN solution supports VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Citrix (formerly XenServer) hypervisors. 

Can I create mirrored vSAN clusters with StoneFly vSAN?

Yes, you can create mirrored vSAN clusters with built-in synchronous replication features that support multi-appliance & multi-site replication. 

StoneFly vSAN also supports asynchronous replication for long distance and offsite replication. For more details, contact StoneFly pre-sales engineers