User Reviews of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance & VMware vSAN

Updated March 2024

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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...
VMware vSAN review

SigfridCecillon
SigfridCecillon
Director at Arsium
Seamlessly integrates with the VMware environment and easy to setup
Scalability is not as simple as expected. While it's okay, there are restrictions and complexities. For instance, you need a minimum number of servers for certain functionalities, making it less flexible to adapt. I don't know the prerequisites listed by VMware that are not allowed. Initially, you need to have three servers, for example,...

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