Name: StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Rating: 9 (3 reviews)
Author: StarWind

Customer Success Management Training

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Continuous Integration

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Payment Facilitation

VoIP

Enterprise

Accounting

Payment Gateway

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Course Authoring

HR Management

Payroll

Professional Employer Organizations (PEO)

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

AI Governance

Access Gateways

Cloud Storage

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Fraud Detection

Graph Database

High Availability Cluster

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Network Behavior Analysis

Network Performance Monitoring

SOA Application Gateways

SaaS Management

Secure Email Gateway

System Monitoring

Traffic Switching

Value-Added Resellers (VARs)

Virtualization Management

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Audience Engagement

Content Management

Content Marketing

Customer Reference Management

Data Management

Email Marketing

Gamification

Marketing Automation

Mobile Marketing

SMS Marketing

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Streaming

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Gamification

Social Commerce

Sales

Architecture

Commercial Drone

Equation Editors

Home Health Care

Insurance Agency Management

Membership Management

OSS/BSS (Operations Support/Business Support)

Online Voting

Practice Management

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

Simulation

Text Analysis

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StarWind SA helps organizations with fixed compute platforms meet storage performance and capacity growth requirements by providing them with high-performance and scalable storage covered by 24/7 support. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed to handle high-performance or unpredictable data growth. It serves storage as a single namespace to different environments via multiple uplink protocols: iSCSI, SMB3, NFS, including RDMA-capable iSER and SMB Direct. As an all-flash hyperconvergence specialized vendor, StarWind states they know exactly what customers look for in storage infrastructure solutions.

IBM Storage FlashSystem, an all-flash storage array, delivers ~2 PB of effective capacity per single rack unit. Engineered with unique FlashCore Modules, it offloads data services including compression, encryption, deduplication, and ransomware threat detection ensuring optimum performance and resiliency.

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Likelihood to Recommend

Flash Array Performance

Flash Array Integration

Data Compression

Non-Intrusive Upgrades

Simplicity

Power Savings

StarWind

Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

Integration with hypervisors and applications

Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

Database Administrator

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) 2022-03-02 02:48:25

VMware ESXi

Microsoft 365

Azure Virtual Machines

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) 2021-07-15 16:39:21

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Full functionality

Responsive customer

Customer support

Responsive customer support

Cost effective

Support team

Proactive support

Customer support team

Mix and match

Secure file

Simple to deploy

Home

Enterprise Flash Array Storage Solutions

For storage and data transfer StarWind Storage Appliance has been the best solution. The GUI is flexible and easy to learn how it works. The deployment procedure takes a short time for full operation capacity. It shows the graphical display of data across all departments and the performance from all departments. It monitors all storage locations of our data and enhances security to any stored files.

Securing all workloads stored under its promises.
Secure file transfer network.

No room for improvement from my experience.
The product functionality capability has always been stable.

There was immediate and positive ROI
The main deployment objectives have been achieved.

We have three StarWind SANs. They provide storage for around 70 VMs running on our 3-host ESXi cluster. We used FC originally but decided to switch to iSCSI and put in a 2-node Starwind SAN for additional storage, then another when we switched to it for primary storage, then a 3-node SSD SAN when we needed additional performance.

Very cost-effective. You choose the hardware.
Very reliable and performant.
Excellent proactive support. They call us when there is an issue.
Very flexible. Can mix and match spinning disk and SSD depending on capacity and performance needs.

Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive.

It enabled us to upgrade our storage and switch from FC to iSCSI at a reasonable cost.
iSCSi is so much less expensive to maintain.
StarWind is upgradable and you never lose your investment.

VMware ESXi, Azure Virtual Machines, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Overview

What is StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)?