StarWind Virtual SAN ROI

MG
Network Operations Manager at LocalTel Yellow Pages

We have been using StarWind since 2012. Our ROI was seen within the first six months.

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Information Systems Manager at HALL'S CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION

The ROI is impossible to know. That said, in terms of reliability and performance, it has paid for itself within the first two years of ownership in electrical costs. They have, in the five years we've had them, paid for themselves in that aspect of cost alone. There is not even a comparison in terms of cost per watt and performance that we have observed.

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NG
Field Engineering Lead at Superior Support Resources, Inc.

The ROI is for our clients. There is less downtime, less troubleshooting, fewer issues, and fast speeds. 

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Buyer's Guide
StarWind Virtual SAN
March 2024
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BH
Director Of Information Technology at Cass County Government

Our ROI has been difficult to calculate as this was a required purchase.

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IT Manager at WYATT EARLY HARRIS WHEELER LLP

I'm not sure how to quantify ROI.

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CT
Chief Information Officer at Ohio Dominican University

ROI is difficult to quantify because we used this solution to replace really old IBM SAN hardware. We can do everything that we need to do with it, and I've had it five years and other than one time that I had to upgrade support, I've had to pay nothing extra. I consider the cost of ownership low, because anybody who has to have on-premises storage, especially if you want to be compliant with backups, needs something like this and I'm sure there's other solutions out there that do it, but this is what we chose and it's worked perfectly.

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DR
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC

I don't know.

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Eren Cakmak - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at Kemmler Kemmler GmbH

While I can not give an exact number, compared to our old setup and the maintenance we put in, the ROI should be over 100%.

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TW
Project Engineer at ACTA inc.

The solution allowed us to have a high availability system without having to purchase additional hardware or support licensing.

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A Mizuno - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at The Children's Foundation

The ROI is not bad.

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MIT - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Administrator at Ludwig Meyer GmbH & Co. KG

Since our HVs already run with Windows DC we had S2D included in the cost.

However, the operational costs were high. I'd easily say the invested time over a year with S2D would be $20-30K while StarWind's vSAN now took like $500-750 (yes, less than $1K!) over two years. 😎

Even if you add the license cost (which is cheap even with our 3-year premium support package) it is a no-brainer.

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Technology & Product Director at Precise Imaging

We've witnessed downtime within two years.

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Manager SOC at Askari

In terms of ROI, we have achieved our RTO and RPO.

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Max Polanc - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at Protect Fundus d.o.o.

The solution was free to use. 

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JC
Network And Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We witnessed an ROI in six months.

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NisarAhmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelance Technology Writer at TechnologyAdvice

We have been using it for the last year or so, and it's working very fine in our environment. 

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Raul Faria - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Axanet GmbH

We prefer not to publish our ROI.

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DM
Works with 11-50 employees

Since installing StarWind, we have not had any downtime. The ROI from not having even one downtime event is immeasurable. 

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SB
Global IS Admin at Benshaw, Inc.

We have met ROI expectations already.

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reviewer189641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemadministratör at Hantverksdata Sverige AB

We save money and time on having this solution, as there's less infrastructure to manage, we have high availability where we need it, and it's much more cost-effective than any other option.

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Infrastructure Engineer at Euro Garages Limited

I can't speak to the current ROI.

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MB
Network Administrator at Armitage Technology Group Inc.

I have not researched ROI.

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BR
Information Technology Supervisor at Northwest Medical Center-Winfield

It came in 80% cheaper than all of the other solutions, and the yearly support contract was a third of the price as well.

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Consultant and Content Manager at Jotelulu

Replacing the previous model with a vSAN model has allowed us significant cost savings. Even if we consider the license, it will not cost much to amortize the investment.

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SF
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

A happy customer is the best ROI. I have many happy customers using StarWind. 

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KH
Senior Network Engineer at Accel Entertainment Inc

It is hard for me to quantify the ROI as an IT person, but we would buy it again in an instant.

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RK
Chief Information Officer at Scott County Hospital, Scott City, KS

We can keep our electronic medical record system running while we do maintenance. We've used Starwind for several years, so the investment has covered itself.

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Tayre José Rivas Salas - PeerSpot reviewer
TI support analyst at Invermedia

The ROI is very good since the system has offered me a solution to change physical equipment for virtual ones and in the future the expenses will be reflected in that I do not have to buy equipment or hardware.

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RT
System Admin | Network Engineer | Project Lead at R.K. Black, Inc

Our ROI was achieved within 36 months of deployment. We ran our first vSAN cluster for 60+ months before replacing it with a new vSAN cluster.

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Technical Support Manager at Support IT

It has great ROI. We were able to maximize the use of old and new equipment.

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BW
Director Of Technical Services at D-J Engineering Group Inc.

The ROI is almost immediate.

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SH
Automation Engineer at Wunderlich-Malec Engineering

I didn't calculate ROI. I can only state that it was about 30% cheaper for the end client than the alternative.

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BH
Director Of Information Technology at Cass County Government

The ROI we witnessed was within 7 months, due to hosting on our system. 

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CM
I.T. Director at MBI

ROI is hard to quantify since we've never used anything else. That said, at least without it there would have been many thousands of dollars just for the licensing costs and appropriate support would have been even more than that. StarWind provides comprehensive support on everything, as long as you buy the hardware through them too.

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Deputy Director at a government with 11-50 employees

The solution is cost-effective.

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RG
Network Specialist at Nexans aeA

About $3500 USD every 3 years.

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reviewer1495242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Daifuku America

I don't have exact figures in terms of ROI but I can say the product was well worth the cost.

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BS
Network Administrator at MUM Industries

This solution helped maintain high performance and data high availability on minimalistic resources. For example, with our ERP system, we went from an old spinning rust array to a all-flash array. Because StarWind allows that and for it to be a VSAN for high availability, if I lose a host, the ERP system will still continue to run. If I have to put a host into maintenance mode, and move all of its processing to the another, I can do that because it is transparent. StarWind doesn't care. When I get the host powered back up, the array resynchronizes, and everything runs as normal. So, it works, as far as high availability. Like any other good system, it is transparent. Behind the scenes, it does what it's supposed to do.

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SS
Area Sales Manager at ABPL

It gives good ROI to the organization since it is cost-effective.

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AS
Chief Technology Officer at American Data Technology, Inc.

Compared to similar solutions from NetApp etc., our savings were likely in the tens of thousands of dollars over the years, and we did not need to pay for features that we do not need.

We were very happy and impressed with StarWind's products and the technical support from StarWind's support team. If and when we needed assistance, StarWind's tech support has been very responsive, thorough, and very helpful.

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FS
Company Owner at a insurance company with 11-50 employees
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Digital Archive System Administrator at Rahvusarhiiv

We have not calculated ROI.

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JG
IT Supervisor at Area Agency on Aging Region 9, Inc.

12-24 months.

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T.
Technology Solutions, Support & Training at UNISONMEDIA Group, Inc.

Return on investment for us, I would say maybe breaking even. As I said, I wish the costs were better balanced.

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MH
Owner at Split Digital LLC

This solution has helped maintain high performance and data high availability on minimalistic resources. Even though we got rid of our SAN, we are still getting higher performance for significantly less outlay, dollar-wise.

It is more efficient on the management side. 

The Log-structured Write Cache (LWC) feature speeds things up for us. Our performance is better than it was on the SAN. However, I don't know if it's directly related to the LWC or whether there is lower latency between the onboard storage and what was the SAN. I'm sure that it helps performance, but I wouldn't know a metric to measure it, specifically.

With the support that I receive from StarWind, it has saved me at least two full-blown, paid Microsoft tickets. For each of Microsoft ticket, we pay about $600 USD a piece for it. While this is not a big cost, it eliminated a headache for us. In addition, we saved on technical consultant costs.

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PS
Senior Cloud Services Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm using a free edition at the moment. ROI does not apply.

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BF
Security and Systems Engineer at New Creation Consulting

StarWind vSAN has saved us far more than we've ever spent on it.

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CTO - Partner at SabreTech Consulting LLC

Less than one year. 

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BB
Works at GOSHEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

We were able to build an entirely new SAN with much greater performance and more capacity for less than the cost of just upgrading our previous SAN, so the ROI was immediate.

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JM
Director of Technology at FAFCO, Inc.

It has paid for itself many times over in reduced downtime and maintenance costs.

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FE
Technischer IT-Berater at ITC GmbH

I will not publish accurate numbers. However, the modernization aspect in terms of lab infrastructure and testing/demonstration environments has an educational benefit, strengthening our consultancy, demonstrating capabilities and our mindset towards data center innovation.

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PL
Senior Technical Architect at HSData LTD

We were price-sensitive and wanted to minimize expenditure on additional hardware. The ability to utilize vMotion and High Availability features in our VMware infrastructure has already repaid the cost of the solution.

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LF
Enterprise Cloud Manager at Exponential-e

We have not measured ROI.

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Corporate Technology Manager at MTE LOGISTIX INC.
RO
Deputy Director of Technology and Communications at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

This solution has helped us maintain high performance and data high availability on minimalistic resources. We have saved about 80 percent (versus purchasing a physical SAN) and peace of mind, which is important.

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Andrey Naumov - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Craft Group

This is the best priced solution for an SMB.

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CIO at Sheremetevo Security

Will soon pay off by reducing downtime and maintenance costs.

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MH
IT Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

It has definitely made things a lot easier to deploy. Our biggest issue was not being tied to a hardware vendor, so if we decide to switch from EMC Dell to HPE or Supermicro, we can continue to use the StarWind solution across the different hardware brands. That's especially important with drive prices changing. We're able to use commodity drives instead of hardware-branded drives. That's an area where there have been some cost savings.

Also, the ability to be hardware agnostic means we're able to shop across vendors for better pricing.

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NC
Technical Department Manager at ACS SA

The ROI for this solution is very good.

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AK
Head of Local Area Network Department at JSC Ufanet

Our return of investment on this product is 100%.

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Owner at ElectronicsBox.com.pl
reviewer1145355 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 201-500 employees

I saw an immediate ROI as I had storage that was not being utilized. Instead of having to spend $10K-$20K to add new storage to the existing environment, wait on the hardware to arrive, and then configure it directly as a new LUN, I was able to use this solution. I purchased the software, installed it on the system that I had with excess space, and created a few new SANs the same day the request was being made with an urgent time frame.  

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AY
Computer Engineer at Savronik Electronic

Even though we got rid of our SAN, we are still getting higher performance for significantly less outlay, dollar-wise. It is more efficient on the management side. The technical advice and support is quite good.

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Director of Systems and Security at a wellness & fitness company with 11-50 employees

Within days, maybe weeks. How much is uptime worth?

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reviewer903849 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Our ROI has been very impressive, as the only recurring costs have been the support contracts. As hard drives become cheaper and cheaper, expanding the capacity of our systems has been trivial.

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LZ
VMware Administrator, VMware vExpert at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

StarWind has the best price.

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reviewer1157808 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

It all cost about twenty-five percent less than the other solutions we looked at.

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Buyer's Guide
StarWind Virtual SAN
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about StarWind Virtual SAN. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.