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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure.""The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with.""This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business.""The license price is one of the cheapest in the market.""We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment.""Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working.""It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable.""With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."

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"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage.""The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly.""The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features.""When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy.""The solution's hardware is great.""The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time.""The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."

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"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance.""The performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end.""SuperCluster is basically a combination of Oracle, with Exadata and Compute node features, so it is a computing cluster that is integrated in a single infrastructure such that we don't need a separate solution for the application database, the data storage database, and everything else the application needs.""Because SuperCluster is a specially engineered system, we have confidence in that all the components are compatible with one another. Everything runs together as a well-coupled group of machines, and the performance is great (especially the memory).""A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries.""Because it's classified as an engineered system, it's all integrated, it's all supported by one vendor. We don't have to go to multiple vendors for support, it's all integrated under Oracle.""In this setup, the traffic is distributed among the nodes, enhancing the overall performance compared to a scenario where all traffic is directed to a single server.""Scalability and technical support."

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Cons
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry.""It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster.""If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online.""For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings.""StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time.""We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind.""They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor.""StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."

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"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical.""Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product.""Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster.""The solution's storage size could be improved.""We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date.""There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution.""In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."

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"A major issue for us is that after the most recent update of SuperCluster, they have now stopped all future production of new versions. That is to say, after M7 there was M8, and now there are no future versions planned (e.g. M9) in the market.""There are many areas for improvement. For example, better guidance in terms of troubleshooting issues relating to ZFS, as well as better tools/diagnostics for monitoring that specific component, to better identify potential issues. Hardware monitoring via OEM 13.2 is not 100 percent, as Ops Center is still required in some instances.""If it had capabilities to integrate really well with DB2 or SQL Server or Hitachi SANs, those sort of things, that would be a real benefit. Right now, it's fully supported only under all Oracle infrastructure.""It's not working as we expected. We thought it would be fast and reliable but we are not getting the reliability. It's not stable.""I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM.""We have faced network connectivity issues.""Not a very user friendly solution.""Speaking from a business perspective, our main problem is that our particular edition of SuperCluster is now at end-of-life status, making it obsolete and impossible to get support for. This presents a challenge for us, as finding a path to our next solution is not easy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great."
  • "We are happy with the price."
  • "The license is reusable. We can always rebuild it and apply the license. Then, boom, we get new servers, apply the license, and we're back up and running."
  • "The pricing is fine for the work that it does."
  • "When we did all the analysis for StarWind, it was approximately 20 percent less than any of the other solutions that we looked at."
  • "The scalability limitation for us is its licensing. At some point in the fairly near future, we will probably have to upgrade our license so we can store eight terabytes instead of four. We are currently at four terabytes, but we're starting to knock on the door of that capacity."
  • "The pricing is excellent. It will run on anything. You don't have to buy a $100,000 server, with hardware you don't need. You just pay for the license and you're good to go."
  • "The licensing is a bit weird. If you license the standard version of StarWind, it allows you four terabytes. Then, they have a pro version, but with the pro version, the only difference is it doubles the terabytes to eight."
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  • "The price point is very fair for a product in this category but can vary depending on the components selected within the family of products."
  • "We received a good price from Dell."
  • "The pricing is dependent on the technology and is in direct relation to the manufacturer and the components."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "The pricing for Dell EMC solutions is quite expensive and not really made for small or medium-sized businesses."
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  • "For us, the licensing costs are a large amount, but we are also paying for the rack, the SLA, and other extras. When I look into our organization's requirements regarding performance, machine load, etc., I believe that, while expensive, SuperCluster is nevertheless good for us."
  • "Due to the multiple products involved in our use of SuperCluster (including different software, hardware, etc.), I cannot comment on the licensing aspect."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines… more »
    Top Answer:The cost of this is less than you expect. Since they're selling a software stack, you do need to consider your own… more »
    Top Answer:You can maintain and update it with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings the… more »
    Top Answer:My advice for people who are selling this product is to first make sure that you educate the customers. The customer… more »
    Top Answer:In this setup, the traffic is distributed among the nodes, enhancing the overall performance compared to a scenario… more »
    Top Answer:Due to the multiple products involved in our use of SuperCluster (including different software, hardware, etc.), I… more »
    Top Answer:We have faced network connectivity issues.
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    Also Known As
    StarWind SAN & NAS
    Oracle MiniCluster, S7-2, M7, M6-32
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    Overview

    StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

    XC Series hyper-converged appliances integrate Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge servers with Nutanix software to offer one of the industry’s most versatile and scalable hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platforms. By supporting a choice of hypervisors, XC Series appliances can be deployed quickly for all virtualized workloads to reduce management complexity and total cost of ownership.

    Secure cloud infrastructure with the industry’s most advanced security, extreme performance, and a complete suite of efficiency enhancements, tools, and automation that work together to dramatically lower cost and complexity.

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    Sample Customers
    Baker Tilly BVI, CMS Internet, Board Harpeth Hall School
    Cardlytics, AEW Energie, Aubert, Zhongtong Information Service, Commune de Villepinte, Teikyo University Hospital
    Advania, Dimension Data, Atos, Etisilat Nigeria, HDFC, Specialized Bicycle Components, Uganda Revenue Authority, iQor, United Energy, Portic Barcelona, B Logistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CSC, CNSI, REDISA
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Construction Company8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Computer Software Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm44%
    Government22%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Logistics Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government17%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Non Profit8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business64%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business63%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise25%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise83%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.6, while Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SuperCluster writes "Great performance all round, but lacking in certain cloud features". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.

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