This comparison table explains the difference between StarWind VSAN license types.
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Free, license, paid

Every systems and storage administrator wants to protect one’s environment from Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, which affect not only Windows PCs, but servers as well.
Most major vendors (Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) have published detailed information about the vulnerabilities and updates, which fix the issue. Other vendors also work on the issue resolution.
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performance, Security

This article explains the difference between 512 and 4096 bytes logical block size of StarWind device providing necessary information for the end-users to be able to properly choose logical block size depending on their current hardware and system configuration.
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4096, 512, logical block size

This article provides a basic theoretical insight on L2 Flash cache usage, explains why L2 cache is needed.
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cache, L2 cache

This article answers the questions of whether StarWind Hardware VSS provider is needed and what it can be used for.
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backup, Backup Exec, snapshot, VSS provider

This document provides answers to frequently asked questions about StarWind LSFS module.
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deduplication, defragmentation, FAQ, LSFS, thin-provisioned

This article explains the reason why StarWind VSAN may start Full synchronization instead of Fast one in the event of recovery after failure
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synchronization

This article provides information about the virtual disk formats, supported by StarWind V2V Converter.
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V2V Converter, virtual disk

This article provides guidance on choosing between the exporting the entire physical storage using the Disk Bridge option and creating the shared storage using virtual disk files.
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disk bridge, image file, virtual disk

HA device allows configuring of the sync channel utilization priority. In this article you can find description and basic guidelines for this.
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QoS