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"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage.""StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases.""Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy.""The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard.""The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free.""The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run.""The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items.""User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."

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"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works.""This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place.""In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."

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"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment.""It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%.""It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier.""It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute.""We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there.""The solution is very scalable.""It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do.""The ease of deployment is a positive feature that allows us to scale easily."

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"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each.""It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows.""I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal.""The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works.""Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface.""Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported.""There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA.""We don't really have any issues with this product."

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"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc.""An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution.""HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."

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"They could improve the packaging.""The product needs better support for installing the operating system on the machine.""To improve the product, they should make it more flexible.""The networking needs improvement.""In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency.""I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule.""I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines.""It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."

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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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  • "This solution saved our organization time (35 percent) and money. We have a hefty group of developers, and if you multiply that by 30 to 35 percent, that is quite a bit of money."
  • "Where we lost nearly 75 percent of our infrastructure due to a malicious attack and were able to recover two and a half hours into it due to the integration, it saved us and all of our customers. Because we were able to recover so fast from the attack, the solution paid for itself right there."
  • "There are the overall infrastructure costs. Even though the initial costing was higher, we calculated for year-to-year for five years. That brought us into a position where we decided, we have to go for HCI rather than having distributor systems."
  • "All the licenses are included when you buy the program."
  • "You still have to pay for the licensing for VMware and Red Hat licenses separately. It's not all inclusive at this point."
  • "This solution reduced our maintenance costs. We were going to have to pay one to two million dollars to put in compute nodes. We are avoiding those costs."
  • "Licenses run on a yearly basis, and there aren't any additional fees other than the standard licensing fee."
  • "The licensing fees are renewed annually."
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    Top Answer:It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier.
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    Also Known As
    StarWind SAN & NAS
    HDS Unified Compute Platform, Hitachi UCP, Hitachi UCP Select
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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.

    Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is the company's product for converged infrastructure (CI), combining resources server, storage, networking, virtualization, and software management.

    NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots.

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    Sample Customers
    Baker Tilly BVI, CMS Internet, Board Harpeth Hall School
    Asia Capital Reinsurance, RMZ, Cigniti Technologies, SPAR, Infosys
    American Showa, Children's Mercy, Coca-Cola, Consultel Cloud, Evangelische Landeskirche in Wurttemberg, Imperva, Surface Mount Technology
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    Manufacturing Company10%
    Construction Company8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Government10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Media Company9%
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    Manufacturing Company15%
    Transportation Company15%
    Pharma/Biotech Company10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Government12%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business64%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).

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