Name: StarWind SAN & NAS
Rating: 9.8 (7 reviews)
Author: StarWind

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StarWind Virtual SAN

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VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.

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Software-Defined Storage Solutions (SDS) encompasses a range of application and policy defined storage provisioning, storage virtualization and storage management automation. Related to software-defined networks (SDN) and datacenters (SDDC), SDS essentially decouples physical infrastructure as a constraint to storage management to the extent possible.

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Unified

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We utilize Starwind VSAN for all our hyper-converged deployments. Value, ease of deployment, manageability, and performance have been very good. Super easy to deploy compared to some other SDS / HC storage applications. Value wise Starwind VSAN is probably the best ROI out of the other solutions. 

Product Usage

We utilize Starwind VSAN for all our hyper-converged deployments. Value, ease of deployment, manageability, and performance have been very good. Super easy to deploy compared to some other SDS / HC storage applications. Value wise Starwind VSAN is probably the best ROI out of the other solutions.

Pros and Cons

Ease of Deployment
Management interface
Documentation and support
performance

Things done well

Documentation could be little better
Have a distributed raid option

Things done poorly

For companies wanting a lean 2 node HC cluster Starwind VSAN is the way to go. Performance, ease of setup, reliability, and management are very good. However, If companies have more than 2 node-setups Starwind isn't the best option as it only does mirrors. Having more than 2 nodes essentially means wasting 2/3 of storage capacity. If StarWind can add distributed raids in future releases that would be perfect.

Ease of deployment
High performance
value on investment

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Allowed us to go all flash for 1/5 the cost
Boosted end user experience due to high iops on flash
lowered expenses on arrays and licensees

Return on Investment

For 2 node clusters, Starwind VSAN is the way to go. Most other solutions don't even allow 2 node set ups. For businesses looking for a solid 2 node set up with redundancy, performance, and reliability look no further.

Alternatives

vSphere, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Hyper-V

Other Software Used

StarWind SAN & NAS 2023-02-01 11:17:50

We were looking for a cost effective way to create a cluster system running Hyper-V VMs without having to deploy an expensive NAS server. We can use local high speed Nvme storage and share between the cluster nodes.

Fast
Easy to use
Great support from Starwind

Great for businesses that need to deploy on-site servers/clusters but have limited budgets.  Extremely flexible.

Ease of use
Reliable
Low cost
Excellent support
Makes use of lower cost local attached nvme storage
Not confined to configuration rules as with Storage Spaces

Even though we have had one host disk failure on one of the cluster nodes, there was no interruption to our users. The server was repaired and the StarWind SAN & NAS made the transition very simple.
There has been zero downtime since the StarWind SAN & NAS was implemented.,

We chose StarWind SAN &amp; NAS over Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct because it was more flexible to configure.

IT Manager

StarWind SAN & NAS 2023-01-11 09:45:33

Zoom Workplace

Dell Technologies Managed Services

Slack

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth

Managed

Currently, we are using StarWind for a particular product where we are using it at a place of using storage for servers. Its functionality to mirror local hard disks and flash between hypervisor serves is really great which is also a cost-efficient solution at a place or some costly storage service.

mirroring internal disks and flash between hypervisor servers.
Creates powerful environment at low cost.
Allows maintenance in zero down time.

Can improve documentation.
Can more focus on user training.

StarWind is best suited for the integration and deployment part and for the storage part as well. The product is budget-friendly and helps us to improve business agility. Can't think of negative scenarios as of now.

Transparent usage
Free migration assistance
Command center

Can't see any such negative impact so far.

Overall the combination is really doing great and helping the business to perform smoothly. The main reason behind selecting StarWind is, It's budget-friendly, has good support and it's great product functionalities.

CloudHealth by VMware and Dell EMC Managed Services

Zoom, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Slack

StarWind SAN & NAS 2021-11-10 13:10:39

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V
Mobile Application	No

StarWind SAN & NAS

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What is StarWind SAN & NAS?

2 node HC powerhouse

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Best budget friendly SAN and NAS product out there

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