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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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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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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 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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Fast and Simple HCI Great Value Solution with Superb Support

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 10, 2025
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)
1 year of experience
  • Storage Management out of the box is a simple process
  • Superb support and pre sales
  • Full SSD solution is a rocket ship without the additional overhead of NVMe so I am really pleased as Compute is as import to me as iOPS
Cons
  • No native snapshots, these have to be done at the hypervisor
  • No Deduplication so requires additional capacity plannimng depending on your requirements

VMware to Hyper-V with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 29, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)
1 year of experience
  • Proactive Support is great, StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) have even noticed things before we did
  • Performance has been great, full NVME is a huge upgrade over our old SAN
  • Setup was handled pretty much by StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) and maintenance has been simple
Cons
  • We weren't informed that StarWind's Windows based appliance doesn't work with NVMe storage currently, would have been good information to have before making the decisions. The Linux based appliance has performed fine though.
  • Small bug in the Linux Appliance after a host reboot where we've seen it lose some network connectivity. Proactive support was in touch before we noticed and immediately connected to assist with the issue.

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance's have been stellar for our nonprofit organization!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 26, 2023
RB
Vetted Review
Verified User
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)
3 years of experience
  • Proactive monitoring of our StarWind HyperConverged Appliances - We've only had a couple minor issues, and all have been identified early.
  • Fantastic support - Support is knowledgeable and can fix things in a remote session or provide guidance.
  • Very reliable - We've never had VM downtime on our cluster in our almost 3 years.
  • Super easy onboarding process - Sales was knowledgeable and very helpful in helping us to pick the "right size" StarWind HyperConverged Appliance's.
Cons
  • I honestly don't have anything to complain about. Nothing is perfect, but the only issues we had were promptly identified and resolved with minimal effort on my part, and were caught early and did not cause downtime. We've basically had almost 3 years of smooth sailing and 100% uptime.

My impressions with the StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 04, 2023
TW
Vetted Review
Verified User
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)
5 years of experience
  • turnkey hyperconverged appliance
  • uninterrupted application delivery and data security
Cons
  • improving the graphical interface with pnp functions
  • Extension of the display to performance parameters via latency, access, etc.
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