I did not evaluate any other options before choosing StarWind.  

StarWind is the best solution because it is the only one that offers a two-node solution. 

We looked into VMware and StarWind, and we did not inquire much about other options. We found that the price of StarWind was very good compared to VMware or Nutanix.

We looked at several options. I swore I would never buy EMC again, but we looked at Xiotech, NetApp, Dell, and others.

StarWind Storage Appliance supports a set of heterogeneous hardware products, meaning you can use multiple hardware tools. You can use multiple hardware tools or operating systems, so there is no need to stick to Microsoft, ESXi, or RHEL specifically. With StarWind Storage Appliance, you use Microsoft, ESXi, or RHEL, a reason why my company chose StarWind over other products.

There are several other competitors in this space that I did look at, but StarWind was just really easy to work with. They have resources on every team to get you what you need. This includes pre-sales, design, management escalation, and technical support.

They provided the specs I needed, so I didn’t really need to look much further.

We looked at pure storage as well but it was too costly.