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Efficient And Stable With Great Support
July 02, 2022

Efficient And Stable With Great Support

Liam Wright | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with StarWind Virtual SAN

We use the vSAN in a 2 node hyper-converged set up in a data center. This provides hardware redundancy and so far, 99.9% uptime for our clients using it. It provides failover capabilities for our virtual machines by allowing us to live and migrate them in a cluster. Not only does it allow the compute and storage to failover, but it also replicates the storage, effectively giving us two vSANs.
  • KBs are written up clearly and are easy to follow.
  • Support team are knowledgeable, friendly and quick to respond.
  • It's extremely stable!
  • Bit expensive for smaller customers.
  • It is complicated to setup for the first time.
  • Requires extra hardware we don't use as standard (extra NICs, etc).
  • 2 "SANs" for the price of one (vSAN is configured on each host so if one goes down you still have the data).
  • vSANs are cheaper than a physical SAN.
  • License is still too expensive for some clients.
Support is fantastic, customer service is excellent as they clearly know their product and are always quick to respond. There is also the option to have support review your setup and advise of any changes if necessary to improve/correct the configuration. This is extremely helpful and can be covered in quite a short amount of time.
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Do you think StarWind Virtual SAN delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with StarWind Virtual SAN's feature set?

Yes

Did StarWind Virtual SAN live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of StarWind Virtual SAN go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy StarWind Virtual SAN again?

Yes

We have found it to be most useful in an RDS environment where there are multiple Session Hosts that may need to be failed between the hosts. This is also in our Datacenter which has already got enough redundancy and protection around it but required something inside the cab to bolster the actual server infrastructure. It doesn't work so well for smaller clients that just simply aren't big enough to need this kind of failover.