StarWind HyperConverged Appliance Reviews

Name: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
Brand: StarWind
Rating: 5 (65 reviews)

4.8 out of 5

65 reviews
98% willing to recommend

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For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.

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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is the #5 ranked solution in top Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions and #6 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give StarWind HyperConverged Appliance an average rating of 9.6 out of 10. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most commonly compared to VMware vSAN: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance vs VMware vSAN. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 48% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Igor Beck

IT-Administrator at Milchwerk Jäger GmbH

Apr 11, 2022

We are using the product primarily as the base and storage for our failover cluster on a Hyper-V Environment (Server 2012r2 - 2019). All 3 of the HCA are all flash variants and have a 10GB uplink to our network, sync between the nodes is 25/40GB. We have Microsoft SQL Servers, Active Directory…

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dchapman

Technology Director at Tryon International Equestrian Center & Resort

Sep 22, 2022

These are our core virtual servers for an equestrian center/resort. We host our domain controllers, print servers, Quickbooks, remote desktop servers, lock servers, PRTG, horse show management, and several other items on these servers. These servers support our daily operations and connections to…

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Carl Marshall

Network Administrator at Winchester Utility System

Apr 20, 2022

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 of physical storage before any RAID is taken into account. A two-node cluster with RAID 1 means one-quarter of the storage you purchase is available. Even though the support was great, getting the same email three to four mornings a week with the same issue got a little disheartening.

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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category stands at 1.1%, marking a decrease of 34.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"StarWind's proactive support is my favorite feature."
"The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."
"Being able to upgrade machines and software during business operations just by switching nodes has been a huge improvement. We"

Room for Improvement

"Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
"The only area that surprised me had to do with the fact that each host runs a StarWind virtual machine used to maintain the health of the vSAN, which individually uses 24GB of memory per host. You should keep this in mind when determining the resources you will need when selecting hardware and components for your specific setup. If I knew that, I would have chosen to add more memory per host to make up for the use."
"We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed."

Pricing

"I was able to bring the price per year down by going out to a five-year plan."
"The HCA price is all-inclusive (setup, hardware, support, warranty), except for your standard Microsoft Server licensing."
"We didn't have any issue with pricing or any of the sales process."

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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA.