User Reviews of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct & StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
Updated March 2024
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct review
Lawrence Tse
Founder, Professional Services Director, Lead Architect at Falcon Consulting
A great solution for fostering the natural expansion of the traditional hybrid...
Most of the VMware customers I have been engaging with say they have experienced engagement problems. VMware is trying to sell off the VMware enterprise cost and the whole solution is being sold down to a customer, whereas, usually they would try to intentionally avoid talking about the related Windows license. It's not very eye-catching...
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance review
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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