Great Hyperconverged Solution for SMB

As an IT consulting company, we needed to find a replacement for the HP StoreVirtual VSA product for 2-node hyper-converged solutions. After demos and deployments of several products like HPE's StorMagic (which is their direct replacement product) and other 3rd party vSAN software like Open-E, one of our engineers deployed Starwind Virtual SAN at a client. He immediately reached out to me and several other engineers about the fantastic function and support of the product, and that StarWind Virtual SAN should be our go-to for future deployments. After seeing the product and experiencing the top-notch support we agreed that this will be the product of our solution to HP StoreVirtual moving forward.

We are able to deploy this software on any brand of hardware from SuperMicro to HP to Dell. StarWind Virtual SAN also sells packages where they spec the hardware, build the servers, and deploy the hypervisor for you. When you receive the product all you have to do is turn it on and follow the instructions that a live support person over the phone will direct you through. We have had great results deploying this product on both HyperV and VMware.

We have not deployed the web-based application for management. This is due to the support personnel directing us to the download of an installed program to manage the SAN. I would rather have web-based management than an installed program. I would expect the support personnel to direct us towards this approach especially if it is seen as best practice. This was the only downside - which is not a downside of the product but only due to the support person we were dealing with. However, the support person was extremely helpful and knowledgeable about the product.