Great solution to downsize on-site storage/costs when moving systems to the cloud
August 01, 2023

Great solution to downsize on-site storage/costs when moving systems to the cloud

Tom Esker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with StarWind Virtual SAN

We reduced our on-site storage by roughly half by moving it to the cloud so we wanted to also downsize our on-site storage cost as well when our NetApp SAN reached end of life. There did not seem to be any good options to accomplish this however until I discovered StarWind VSAN on an onine forum post. After thoroughy checking them out with other customers, scouring the net, talking with sales and tech people and doing a 30 day trial, I was sold. We ended up meeting our goal of reducing on-site stoage cost by half of what we paid for the NetApp 6 years earlier and performance and support have been second to none. I highly recommend StarWind VSAN!

Pros

  • High availabilty
  • High performance
  • Easy to administer

Cons

  • More guidance/examples/suggestions on how to conduct the free evalutation with ur system
  • We reduced on-site storage costs by half vs. the original cost of 6 years ago of our end of life NetApp SAN that we were replacing.
  • We maintained high availability - even without a physical SAN
  • We have noticed zero loss in performance
Every contact with suppprt has been a good experience. Response is quick, techs are knowledgeable and helpful.
Have not evaluated or used any other Virtual SAN products. VMWare's offereing requires 3 ESXi host servers so that would have made storage costs too high.

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

StarWind vSAN is a pefect solution for a small to medum size organization that has reduced on-site storage by moving systems to the cloud and now wants to downsize storage costs as well.

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