StarWind HyperConverged Appliance Stability
In all the years we've used the product, we have not had any major problems or issues with any StarWind systems. This reality speaks for itself.
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reviewer2084550
Senior System Administrator at Inflexion
We've had almost three years with no downtime for our VMs, so I would say it's quite stable.
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reviewer1822314
Head of Infrastructure and Networks at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
The stability is very good. There are no stability issues whatsoever.
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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
March 2024
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The solution is very stable.
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Dan Reynolds
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC
StarWind from my experience is extremely stable. I have used the StarWind VSAN product for several years and other than self-inflicted issues it has been rock solid. I expect the HCA to be even more stable since it is all "in the box". It has been the best storage solution I have used with VMware. I have used a variety of SANs previously. The whole virtualized SAN concept, I believe, is the smarter choice technology wise. With a smaller environment as we have, two node cluster, it makes more sense and is cheaper than VMware's VSAN product.
View full review »It is extremely stable. I haven't had any issues at all. It's one of my favorite things about this solution.
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David Rager
CEO CIO at Store & Haul Inc
They're doing a great job. I do want to benchmark this and see how well it's going to do. I'm going to hit it with heavy loads and find ways to really stress-test it more.
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Claire Madison
IT Manager at Projects Inc.
The stability has been excellent. We've never had any crashes or issues with the products themselves going down or any kind of instability. Everything that we have had — as I mentioned, there was something potentially wrong due to a disk issue, although it turned out that there wasn't a problem — they have usually been quick to catch it proactively.
But as for anything unexpected happening or that brought us down, there's been nothing thus far, which has been awesome.
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reviewer1852140
Systems Engineer & Cloud Specialist at myCRECloud | Cloud Application Hosting
The product is extremely stable. We have only had issues from external sources, for example, our Data Center losing power. Whenever you lose power to a SAN, you run the risk of data corruption. Once we got the power back on, the support team was ready to help get our environment back online. They were able to get all the shared storage synced and vm's started again. To no fault of theirs a couple of our vm's had data corruption on the OS level, however that is the extent of the damage. We were able to restore the vm's from backup and were right back to productivity. Meanwhile we noticed other people in different racks had terrible issues with their SAN's. Some people had complete and total data loss, while others were unable to get their environments to boot. Those people were at a total loss. This is why I was so happy to see how quickly we were able to get back online and get back to production. Between the durability of the cluster and the excellent support, we were back up and running in no time.
View full review »I've had zero issues with the appliances with anything other than our backup software.
Edit: I've been asked to clarify this. I had an issue with our backup software that was 100% on them. The errors involved VSS and a CBT driver that needed reinstalling. It was a little annoying getting emails every morning from ProActive Support while I got it straightened out, but the issue was between Windows and my backup/DR solution.
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reviewer1954026
Infrastructure Engineer at H. W. Martin (Fencing Contractors) Ltd.
So far, we have had no problems with stability.
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Barry Miles
IT Manager at Sutton Group
The solution is very stable and never has any issues.
View full review »My experience so far is that it is very stable. Even after having to shut down and start up our entire facility twice due to hurricanes here in Florida, we haven't had any issues.
View full review »The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests.
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reviewer1852095
Senior Systems/Network Administrator at Storm Industries, Inc.
The stability was rock solid. We have never had any downtime.
View full review »The stability is rock solid. We haven't had any downtime due to hardware/software issues.
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reviewer1831260
Senior IT Support Specialist at Seneca Family of Agencies
The nodes have been extremely stable. We have had no issues over the last few years when using them.
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James Ching
Systems Analyst at The Bethany Group
So far, we've not had a single live down situation.
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Daniel P.
Works with 11-50 employees
Stability-wise, we have had no issues as of yet, whatsoever.
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reviewer1365102
Director of IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The solutions is very stable. StarWind have proactive monitoring so if they see any issues they will call you and will work on the resolution.
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reviewer1944000
IT Manager at Conestoga
StarWind is very resilient and built off of quality vendor hardware. Their software works well and rarely has issues.
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reviewer1934964
System Engineer at Selux AG
The stability has been rock solid. We have experienced zero downtime.
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reviewer1845939
Director of IT at Kelly Aerospace, Inc.
The solution has been very stable with a single exception. We missed a critical update to the firmware of our Samsung SSDs that took us offline. I wish there had been a way to have had a notification of the missing critical update prior to getting to the failure point.
Even with this, StarWinds support worked with us and the hardware provider to get us back up quickly with no data loss.
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Shawn Bender
Global IS Admin at Benshaw, Inc.
There have been no issues with stability since the solution was implemented.
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Kristopher Skully
Systems Administrator at Hospice of the Western Reserve
The stability has been great. We haven't had any problems at all.
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reviewer1036590
Systems Engineer / Systems Administrator
In the 2.5 years we have had our HCAs, I have had not one issue with stability and it primarily just works right out of the box.
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reviewer1854726
IT Infrastructure Manager at TPRG
I have done vigorous testing prior to live install and the stability of the system is excellent.
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Jason Holder
IT Manager at TrendHR
So far, we have had zero downtime.
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HunterMorgan
Owner at Data Barn
The stability has been great, with the exception of that one issue I mentioned which seemed to be Dell EMC hardware-specific. That even spoke to StarWind's stability in the sense that we had one host going down regularly without downtime.
We've had zero issues directly caused by StarWind. Everything is contained within the VM guests. Those are just configuration and Windows Server problems. This is definitely the most stable hardware we've had, and I've been involved in this business for eight years, on various stages of hardware. These past six months have been the lowest in terms of overhead so far.
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reviewer1684866
CIO at a renewables & environment company with 11-50 employees
The stability has been great. We have not had the HCA system fail whatsoever. Minor issues are handled gracefully.
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Paul T
Network and Information Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution's stability is absolutely faultless.
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Matt_Thomas
Network Manager at Riverston Schools
The stability is good. I have had no downtime nor issues. You don't have to maintain it.
The only time I heard from the actual support was when that hard drive went down. As that was caused by a physical thing on our end, I can't really say that was a stability issue.
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ChrisKlose
IT Manager at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
It's very stable. It does everything it's supposed to do. The monitoring points out any issues with connectivity or downtime.
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reviewer1691742
Server Administrator at John Wood Community College
The solution is very stable as long as you realize there can be possible split-brain issues with sync if multiple nodes lose power at the same time. This is where the nodes do not know which is the more up to date so they are not sure which way to sync. Support can help resolve the issues should they happen.
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Ho-Ching Yung
IT Director/Senior Software Developer at Hillis-Carnes Engineering
We have not had any issue since putting it in production 12 months ago.
View full review »We have been pleased so far. Zero downtime.
View full review »Stability has been good. We've had one issue with the StarWind service locking up causing full sync to be performed. During this sync, there wasn't any noticeable performance impact by our users.
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manager921597
I.T. Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
The solution is very stable. We've not had any issues with them. We've been using them for at least four years and we've not had any issues with them.
View full review »It is a stable product so far.
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reviewer1275825
Systems Admin at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The solution has been stable so far..
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Andrew_Lee
IT Infrastructure Analyst at a retailer with 201-500 employees
The stability has been great. There have been no problems, not a hiccup or anything. So far, it seems fine.
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Andrew Wolf
Civil Engineer at Crossroad Engineers, P C
None at this time.
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PieterGrootendorst
Technical Consultant at GMA
We never have any problems with stability.
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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about StarWind HyperConverged Appliance. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.