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Solid Product and Great Service!
September 07, 2022

Solid Product and Great Service!

Daniel Chapman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

Being a facility that hosts horse shows and restaurants we need servers in a HA solution to ensure that shows are not delayed and we didn't have any major downtime. The StarWind HCA vSAN solution gave us the product we needed to ensure we stay online. Our horse show software is necessary to run each of these shows and very necessary element for our companies success.
  • Coping date every second in real time
  • instant failover
  • the ability to upgrade software in background without affecting users during business hours
  • I can't say I know of specific areas of improvement. I like the way the systems work. Sometimes I have hard time understanding the support team on the phone but it's not bad.
  • operating on two servers instead of three in most vSAN envorments save money on server cost
  • No after hours upgrades needs. So staff not working after hours
When our VSAN software needs to be updated the team reached out and guided us through the upgrades. We have not had other issues that I'm aware of that triggered and needed events. Overall the operation of servers has been solid so no real reasons for StarWind to reach out to us.
We have not experienced any downtime during the two years that we have had the servers. They have been rock solid and without issues. So I can't really speak to real-time failover other than migrating active VM from one host to another and that is extremely smooth with no noticeable effects on performance or user connection.
We looked at Scale Computing as another option that was more expensive. There may have been a couple more bells and whistles but for our organization and pricepoint, Starwind fit the bill. With Scale your needed three nodes and with StarWind only 2. Also, StarWind offered refurbished servers with a strong protection plan that brought costs to a more reasonable place for our organization.

Do you think StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)'s feature set?

Yes

Did StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) again?

Yes

When upgrading servers and software it is so easy to to switch the active server over to another node. The cluster manager makes it easy to work on managing servers and upgrades. Our server is not overly complex so it meets our needs in every way. updates can be done during the day instead of waiting till the middle of the night to do upgrades.