StarWind HCA Reviews & Ratings 2022

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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

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Affordable and Rock Solid

We use StarWind HCA as our main server infrastructure and all of our core VMs are hosted on this platform. We needed a product that could …

A rock-solid and affordable alternative to VMWare native vSAN

We settled on StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) as a less expensive alternative to VMWare's more expensive license for vSAN shared …

Cost effective and stable for small environments

Starwind HCA is our backbone for our Hyper V environment which runs nearly all processes for our college. We run many different virtual …

StarWind is the best of the best

The StarWind HCA is used as a home for our VMs. It makes spinning up a new VM or migrating old VMs very easy and fast. It is being used …

Great HCA product at a great price with outstanding support

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is being used at our entire organization to server the needs of all of our virtual servers that …

High Availability at an Affordable Price.

Starwind HCA is used as the primary [solution] for our virtualization environment on Hyper-V. We run a wide selection of [virtual] servers …

Great Solution, easy transition

We migrated from a two-host replication back and forth configuration to a fully highly available solution with ease. The servers were …

StarWind HCA vSAN Post-Purchase Review

We use StarWind [HyperConverged Appliance] vSAN to support the IT needs across the entire company. It allows us to provide …

StarWind HCA is The Perfect Solution for SMB IT Departments

We were resolving longstanding issues with a traditional data center sprawl with separate compute and storage products. StarWind came in …

Great solution for SMB infrastructure

Our StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is the core of our organization. All of our critical VMs are hosted on it including SQL databases, …

StarWind: The perfect fit for your company

It is being used across the organization. We had experienced some data loss due to a failed backup and knew that we needed to address that …

Reliable and Affordable VSAN Solution

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance serves as our hardware and storage for our sites. StarWind replaced our traditional SAN and host …

Fantastic and cost-effective upgrade to our old mess!

We had a hodge-podge of Hyper-V servers of various ages, capacity, and speed - some being upwards of 10 years old. Finally got budget to …

StarWind is great

I manage a number of different IT environments ranging in the 10-500 staff level

Starwind by far provided the best bang for the buck. …

SMB wanting the virtual high availability that large enterprises have? Look no further than StarWind HCA.

We are an IT service provider. A new area that we wanted to branch out into is hosting services/data for our customers. Starwind …

Great mix of functionality and cost

We were planning on upgrading our ERP system that was running on physical servers that were near end of life and were looking at …

Outstanding Products & Support

We are a small to mid-sized Eye Clinic that in 2015, had to upgrade our Patient Management & Billing system so deciding to stick with our …

NPO Review of StarWind HCA

We are currently using StarWind HCA to build out a flexible, distributed storage system. We had a myriad of file, application and database …

Budget friendly hyper-converged appliance that works

We used to have 4 Dell PowerEdge hosts running various version of Microsoft Hyper-V with no redundancy.
We are also running out of storage …

StarWind HyperConverged HCA is a great solution

StarWind allowed us to migrate everything to a single Hyper-converged High Availability Hyper-V Cluster. We were able to shut down all of …

StarWind HCA delivered us a complete solution

StarWind HCA delivered us a complete solution that works out of the box. We received everything we need to get up and running. Support was …

A simple solution that has amazing support and very easy deployment

We had to replace an aging classic infrastructure because the cost to support and maintain every part of it was pretty high. Also, the SAN …

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Proactive monitoring of all of the hardware

Charles Marcus

I.T. Director

MBI (Media Production, 11-50 employees)

Great Hyper-V Solution
More documentation -- particularly in regards to Starwinds VSAN

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees

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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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No setup fee

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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 HCA Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	Windows, Linux
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

What is StarWind HCA?

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

What are StarWind HCA's top competitors?

Scale Computing HC3, Nutanix AOS, and NetApp HCI are common alternatives for StarWind HCA.

What is StarWind HCA's best feature?

Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 9.

Who uses StarWind HCA?

The most common users of StarWind HCA are from Mid-size Companies and the Financial Services industry.

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