StarWind Virtual SAN is software-defined storage for efficient storage and backup.
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VMware is well suited with the native environment whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is suitable for organization who is using different virtualization environment as well. It is well suited with hyper visor environment although VMware have some limitation while deploying in a …
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IT Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at ALL.SPACE (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees)
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
The Dell PowerVault offering is significantly more expensive, more complex to implement and manage, and requires additional rack space that would have been difficult for us to find. On the positive side, it is extremely scalable and does provide some features that Starwind does …
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RSI in Engineering at Avize Viti Campus (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
The ease of use is remarkableThe price of StarWind Virtual SAN is much lower than other solutions of the same range and offering the same services.The dashboard is very intuitive and facilitates access to information.The diversity of configuration tools makes configuration …
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IT Administrator in Information Technology at Grand + Benedicts (Retail, 51-200 employees)
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
Compared with the cost and complexity of a dedicated SAN or Hyperconverged appliance, StarWinds VSAN is much less expensive. While there is a limit on the number of nodes a cluster can support, we are not close to reaching that threshold.
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Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
VMware has no free tier. The licensing was much more expensive than we could afford. StarWind's basic VirtualSAN tier has surpassed our expectations, so we don't feel there is any need to go for a hardware based or higher cost alternative. StarWind Virtual SAN does everything …
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Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
Other solutions were proven to be less reliable in the specific test setup used.
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Verified User
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
We evaluated several alternatives, including Microsoft Storage Spaces / Stormagic and Nutanix AHV. StarWind Virtual SAN stood out due to its cost-effectiveness, ease of deployment, and ability to deliver high availability without requiring expensive proprietary hardware. Unlike …
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We had an older NetApp SAN and it was slower and we couldn't upgrade the hardware in it. Now with StarWind Virtual SAN, we can install any hardware that our Windows host OS will allow.
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IT Manager in Information Technology at Wyatt Early Harris WHeeler LLP (Law Practice, 11-50 employees)
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
Alternative solutions were twice the cost or more which eliminated them. I got input from several companies who used StarWind Virtual SAN and nothing bit good thinsg to say and it was the only option I found that seemed reputable at anywhere near the cost we paid.
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Senior IT Specialist in Information Technology at Panoptic Services Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
Better value compared to the competition. BYOD for hardware it runs on. Free to deploy version and can be scaled to the licensed version of the product. Full performance of the hardware it is running on. Amazing customer services and support. easy to deploy and can be run as a …
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Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
The deployment and administrative management of StarWind are significantly more user-friendly compared to other solutions. It is essential for a solution to be intuitive, especially for individuals who are not highly technical or those managing multiple stacks of products …
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Verified User
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
StarWind VSAN provided a cost-effective solution without compromising on essential features. The straightforward setup and management were crucial for our IT team’s efficiency. The excellent customer support and proactive monitoring were significant factors in our decision. Its …
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Verified User
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
Better functionality, less complexity, cost effective
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Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
StarWind Virtual SAN offers more fine-grained features and better performance and stability as compared to the Microsoft Windows Server iSCSI storage server on Windows Server 2019. It also adds the significant benefit of supporting not only HyperV but also VMware and KVM. This …
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Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
StarWind Virtual SAN is easier to setup and use, and less expensive. It also has the flexibility of working with Hyper-V or vSphere. StarWind Virtual SAN as a company is also much easier to work with.
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Senior Systems Officer in Information Technology at Domino Machine (Machinery, 51-200 employees)
Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
HPE and Dell solutions were just too expensive for our budget. HPE's solution lacked performance. Dell's solution is plagued by bad reviews which told stories of broken patching procedures and terrible support experiences. The only company who offered me a trial of their …
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Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
StarWind Virtual SAN Applicance is available in a hyperconverged scenario, it means you can run it on existing virtual machines and it does the backup against each other by synchronizing the data store with each other. Vmware does not have this type of hyperconvergent approach. …
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Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
Best value for money and less (or no) hardware restrictions.
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For remote locations, where communications are limited and cloud services are difficult to obtain, on-premises servers are the only solution. Hardware solutions require spares in storage for redundancy and are more expensive than software solutions. If communications and cloud computing are highly available, then solutions such as StarWnd Virtual SAN would not be needed.
the StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to use Starwind Management Console to confirm health of the sync
The High Available nature of the deployment means we can fail over VMs without end users noticing any downtime
Their support is proactive alerting when firmware updates are needed (including iDRAC firmware) or when there are any warnings in the event logs, and schedule a time to remediate the issue with you.
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Complexity: StarWind Virtual SAN can be complex to set up and manage, especially for organizations with limited IT resources
Limited protocol support: StarWind Virtual SAN supports a limited number of protocols, primarily iSCSI and SMB3
Limited scalability for storage-only deployments: In storage-only deployments, StarWind Virtual SAN has a limit of 32 nodes per cluster
Lack of reporting and analytics: StarWind Virtual SAN has limited reporting and analytics capabilities, which can make it difficult to monitor and troubleshoot performance issues
Limited backup and recovery options: While StarWind Virtual SAN provides some basic backup and recovery options, it lacks advanced features such as snapshot management, backup scheduling, and offsite replication
StarWind Virtual SAN is a great solution and is now an integral part of our network of servers. The product is superb and the support has been amazing. It's perfect for our organisation and we won't be looking to come away from it any time soon!
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Very easy to use and manage from an IT standpoint. The user interface is well laid out, provides access to the underlying hardware configurations, and allows customization of storage volumes from each cluster node in your environment. Can provide differing levels of access, so team member access can be set up based on roles.
The solution has been tested under constant usage for 5 years now and there (knock on wood) has yet be an outage. There were instances if human error during the operation and the StarWind reliably intervened, either through a synchronization or reporting of a degredation of interfaces, e.g. the heartbeat interface.
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The software delivered exceptional performance until now with very fast write and speed rates, around 900MB/s through a 10GBit connection on a virtualized fileserver. It meets our demands without any problems whatsoever and we are a very media heavy environment with TBs of raw data.
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Their support team is dedicated to providing top-notch customer service and is always available to help with any questions or issues that may arise. Their expertise and responsiveness have proven invaluable in ensuring the smooth operation of our virtualized environment. With such excellent support, we feel confident in our ability to utilize this product to its fullest potential, and we highly recommend it to others.
Overall the setup was easy, we did require some help from the technical support team but other than that, we followed all of StarWinds prerequisites and everything else just fell nicely into place with hardly any downtime. The downtime was only due to moving VMs from our previous cluster over to the new StarWind storage cluster.
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We have found the solution surprisingly simple to use. The management console allows us to monitor the solution and we have configured email alerts to alert us about critical issues. These alerts have been proven to work in an actual failure scenario, for example, when we had a memory issue with one of our servers that caused the entire server to crash. The management console also allows us to monitor the solution performance and provides us with access to system logs.
The software is very scalable storage wise. The storage is provisioned through config files, which are created either through PowerShell scripts or the Management Console on the paid version. After that the storage is provisioned through iSCSI. In our case, in case of expansion, we would have to run the PowerShell scripts and do another full synchronization to update any remaining backup nodes, but the procedure is clear and even easier via Management Console, just expand the RAID array, punch the new capacity into the console and start the synchronization!
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