StarWind HyperConverged Appliance Reviews

Name: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
Brand: StarWind
Rating: 5 (66 reviews)

4.8 out of 5

66 reviews
98% willing to recommend

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What is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance?

For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.

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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is the #9 ranked solution in top Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions and #12 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give StarWind HyperConverged Appliance an average rating of 9.6 out of 10. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most commonly compared to VMware vSAN: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance vs VMware vSAN. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 53% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Russ Le Puill

IT Manager at St Peter's Church of England Aided School

We desperately needed to update yet downsize our data centre. We had six hosts for only approximately 14 or so Virtual machines and two old SANs. All of this was running on 10+ year-old refurbished hardware! As part of our upgrade, we wanted to improve the speed and manageability of our virtual…

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Igor Beck

IT-Administrator at Milchwerk Jäger GmbH

We are using the product primarily as the base and storage for our failover cluster on a Hyper-V Environment (Server 2012r2 - 2019). All 3 of the HCA are all flash variants and have a 10GB uplink to our network, sync between the nodes is 25/40GB. We have Microsoft SQL Servers, Active Directory…

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reviewer2084550

Senior System Administrator at Inflexion

My nonprofit organization purchased a pair of StarWind Hyperconverged appliances almost three years ago. We wanted to simplify our environment while also cutting costs on server equipment. We compared other vendors and settled on StarWind for the cost and excellent reviews. We replaced our old…

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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance mindshare

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As of October 2024, the mindshare of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category stands at 2.4%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The StarWind command centre is a very handy tool to have. It allows less skilled staff to have a view and manage our virtual machines."
"StarWind's proactive support is my favorite feature."
"The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."

Room for Improvement

"It would be amazing if there was, perhaps, a more automated process for updating the hosts themselves, although the maintenance mode works well."
"Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
"The only area that surprised me had to do with the fact that each host runs a StarWind virtual machine used to maintain the health of the vSAN, which individually uses 24GB of memory per host. You should keep this in mind when determining the resources you will need when selecting hardware and components for your specific setup. If I knew that, I would have chosen to add more memory per host to make up for the use."

Pricing

"I was able to bring the price per year down by going out to a five-year plan."
"The HCA price is all-inclusive (setup, hardware, support, warranty), except for your standard Microsoft Server licensing."
"We didn't have any issue with pricing or any of the sales process."

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Learn more about StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA.