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StarWind HCA

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What is StarWind HCA?

The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution designed to reduce application downtime on a reasonable budget.

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Top product and good price policy

8 out of 10
August 31, 2022
We would like to have a cheaper solution compared to a storage system but with all the advantages and not the disadvantages. Here only …
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What is StarWind HCA?

The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution designed to reduce application downtime on a reasonable budget.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is StarWind HCA?

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a turnkey hyper-converged platform that merges compute, storage, network, and software into a nuclear 2-node footprint. The solution is designed to simplify HCI management for Enterprise ROBO, SMB & Edge, while offering flexible scalability and powerful performance.

Users can start with two nodes, based on HeartBeat, that can be switchless and function without additional equipment. StarWind HCA is a software-centric architecture that removes the need for proprietary components. StarWind Engineers perform the configuration, testing, migration, and integration for users, free of charge.

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance:

  • allows using 100% of underlying storage performance
  • has no hardware compatibility lists (HCLs)
  • does 2- or 3-way replication + local RAID 5/6/10
  • does VAAI and ODX data offloading
  • includes load balancing and data locality
  • does VM-centric hypervisor-level snapshots, and more.

To minimize CapEx and OpEx further, StarWind ProActive Premium Support (included in every license) substitutes an IT squad for the sake of cluster health assurance. ProActive Support monitors user environments 24/7/365, and uses machine learning to detect abnormal behavior so issues are prevented before they can become a problem.

The vendor presents StarWind HCA as a hyper-converged world enclosed in a tiny “building block” that comes at a reasonable price.

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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

StarWind HCA Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution designed to reduce application downtime on a reasonable budget.

Scale Computing Platform and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are common alternatives for StarWind HCA.

Reviewers rate Availability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of StarWind HCA are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simplification of our server and network environment - Has freed up my time and focus to the services provided by our VM's.
  • No longer purchasing individual servers - Our virtualization needs are well met by the StarWind HyperConverged Appliance's.
  • Reduced server maintenance costs - Not having to pay maintenance on new servers, just our few remaining physical servers and our StarWind HyperConverged Appliance's.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We experienced a significant increase in IOPS with the all-flash storage and high-end components of the system.
  • The cost to replace an aging critical physical server was absorbed into the cost of the StarWind HCA two-node setup which ended up benefiting the entire enterprise instead of just improving a single physical server.
  • Users are happy with the improved performance of their applications which increases productivity and overall business operations.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • ROI: Phenomenal. If we were to piece together a system like this with the limited IT resources we have, it would have cost a bundle, and deployment would have taken much longer.
  • Speed of deployment was a key consideration and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance delivered.
Dan Reynolds | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Performance has been very positive. Of course this was a hardware change so a lot of that was to be expected.
  • I don't track ROI - but I do like that this was a complete package, hardware, software, support and monitoring. I think it was a huge cost savings to almost any other solution.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cost Saving , Instead if having multiple servers and manageing them seperately we have redundant hyperV servers and this creates efficiencies in terms of management of the servers
  • Customer Support is proactive and contact us if anything needs paying attention to with good follow ups
  • Redundancy of Hardware via RAID and power system is good for critical environment
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • StarWind came in much lower than competitors, so this was great.
  • We chose to get a fully SSD system and performance was more than enough.
  • The best impact was the ease of management. Only need to manage one product and one vendor. That is great.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Two StarWind HCAs are either a half or less than half the cost of a Dell blade chassis with 3 blade servers, two switches of iSCSI and one storage server for the SAN.
  • With the above being our past SAN implementation, there was still a single point of failure with the one storage server for the SAN so has increased our reliability/uptime/redundancy of our environment at half the cost.
  • The time savings in regards to Support is also worth the money spent on the Premium Support plan they over since I don't need to contact StarWind Support for any issues with the Dell hardware/virtual host, for any issues with the StarWind SAN software, and any VMware issues.
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