User Reviews of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP & StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

Updated March 2024

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP review

Ameet Bakshi
Ameet Bakshi
Assistant VP at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Set it up and it works, requiring little maintenance
The way that it has helped our organization is that it requires less time to manage. It's almost like a set-it-and-forget-it type of solution. We don't have to do too much maintenance. Compared to other products, it doesn't need so much babysitting. It's easy to set up and it works. It does the things it is expected to do. In addition, it...
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance review

Carl Marshall
Carl Marshall
Network Administrator at Winchester Utility System
Offers a failover cluster which combines storage, network, and compute resources...
CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local. It imparts a small performance hit that's easily overshadowed by the performance increase from getting off 1GB ethernet. The Virtual SAN setup also requires more actual storage than a traditional SAN. My two-node cluster means I need double the amount...

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