Item: StarWind Virtual SAN
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with StarWind Virtual SAN

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize StarWind vSAN primarily for the fault tolerance and high availability feature. We have multiple hosts running StarWind VSAN, which gives us the freedom to perform maintenance on one node without impacting the availability with other nodes. Our organization has been saved many times now after implementing multiple, redundant instances StarWind VSAN in a clustered configuration.

Pros and Cons

Pros

High availability file shares with high-availability quorum.
Redundancy and availability of VMs hosted on multiple hosts.
Flexibility to host vSAN independently from old-school physical SAN LUNs.

Cons

StarWind vSAN should include higher storage limits per license tier.
The free trial should come with more features to really ensure a proper deployment can be evaluated before committing to purchasing.
StarWind should look into officially supporting nested configurations; such as vSANs within a VM.

Return on Investment

Higher uptime driving less outages
Better sales due to better uptime

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

StarWind vSAN is best suited for high availability file servers, high-availability VMs, and running SAN storage independently from a physical machine. It is not best-suited to be ran in a nested configuration, from within a VM. Overall, StarWind vSAN is an excellent alternative to competing solutions for price, ease of use, and overall performance.

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