Starwind vSAN 2 thumbs up
August 11, 2023

Starwind vSAN 2 thumbs up

Danny Rackow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with StarWind Virtual SAN

We were needing an HCI setup so we could expand storage as needed without any downtime. Also we needed a setup that was easy to maintain without expensive 40gb switches. The final important feature needed was the ability to replicate to another drive on another host to minimize downtime during a failure, replacement or an upgrade.

Pros

  • Customer support
  • Failover by using HCI
  • Expanding storage easily

Cons

  • Deduplication
  • Encryption
  • High latency stretched DR
  • ROI less than 2 years compared to cloud
  • Minimized downtime
  • Improved performance
Customer support was by far the best part of the experience. From sales to purchase to customer support it is a 10 all across the board.
We selected starwind vsan instead of vmware because of the integrated support they provide for the hardware and the software

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

Our needs were pretty basic. We needed a 3 node cluster without using switches. Vmware could NOT accommodate this so we looked for an alternative which I am glad we did as Starwind customer support is 10x better than VMware and the vSAN product is near comparable. Only drawback was the lack of encryption and dedup which was not a deal breaker for us luckily as it hit every other mark we needed.

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