StarWind Virtual SAN Reviews

Replicated, high availability storage for VMware vSphere cluster of VMware ESX 2-nodes in an HA cluster for Virtual SAN storage, only this software can do a 2-node cluster.

It provides cost-friendly replacements for VMware vSAN or the dedicated storage solution that I am using it for to build shared, replicated storage for my VMware vSphere.

You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS/SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage.

• I would like to replace Windows nodes to Linux. As of today, Linux nodes are ready for production. 
• Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console.
• Ability to check network card settings (such as MTU), VMware settings, and other settings needed for work under StarWind best practices. I would like to have something like a StarWind Best Practices Analyzer.

The setup is fast.

The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great.

We evaluated VMware vSAN and HPE StoreVirtual VSA.

Our primary use case is as a virtual storage area network for server clusters and file storage in a production environment for our company.

This solution reduces the cost of additional equipment and services for the creation and development of corporate infrastructure.

StarWind Virtual SAN was designed with virtualization workloads in mind. It employs server-side Flash/RAM caches and minimalist/short I/O path to provide performance unmatched by typical virtual appliances and physical shared storage.

StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time. This may be a choice to reduce the services running on the storage nodes but does seem like it would be a good alternative.

I feel that this solution is very stable.

Qualified online support specialists are always ready to help.

We did not use a different solution before this one.

We evaluated VMware before settling on this product.

A thorough analysis and testing of existing offerings in the network storage market has shown that StarWind Virtual SAN is the perfect network storage solution.

It provides the necessary fault tolerance and continuance of business processes.

StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere.

Moreover, the manufacturer's website has detailed documentation that helps to resolve issues. In cases when the documentation is not enough, qualified online support specialists are always ready to help.

In the test environment, the product has shown excellent results and currently is implemented in a production environment.

We are using a two-node StarWind VSAN cluster on a Dell 720xds. The StarWind VSAN helps us to better leverage the computing power of our ESXi hosts and helped solve the problem of expanding local storage.

StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget. Other solutions were far too costly.

The HA clustering and the ability to run on our own equipment have been the most valuable.

I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools. StarWind offers a management console to configure the and monitor the servers, setting up SMTP alerts would be a plus.

We evaluated other options and this one was the most cost-effective.

I use StarWind Virtual SAN software to change our old HPE Fibre Channel storage into an iSCSI solution for our development environment.

We have an old HPE Fibre Channel SAN that we wanted to reutilize for a development environment. However, we didn't want to spend too much on fiber infrastructure or replace the controller with iSCSI, since this would cost thousands of dollars. 

StarWind Virtual SAN software solves our problems. The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent.

I like the simple management interface:

• It is easy to setup.
• It has good support feature.                                                   

• It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks.
• It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted.

I have not faced any issues with stability.

Not applicable.

We are happy with the price. 

We use StarWind vSAN software storage solutions to run two hypervisors in an HA clustered environment. 

This is a cost effective solution that allows us to have an HA clustered environment with redundancy and scalability. Storage has been very stable, and without issues, failures, or  bugs.

Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management. This solution can be used with hardware RAID. Additionally, there are many white papers and informational studies about how to utilize the software.

Updates seem to be non-existent. The software is stable, but I do not get any updates or emails about new releases.

We use this solution for a High-Availability cluster for Hyper-V on two nodes. We are running on Windows Server 2016.

StarWind Virtual SAN allowed us to increase the fault tolerance of our servers, which resulted in greater user loyalty.

In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support.

Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell. It is not entirely clear and there quite a bit of documentation.

We have been using the product for a long time and have not seen any glitches.

We plan to implement this solution on seventy servers in our branches. StarWind Virtual SAN allows you to do this quickly and it is not expensive.

Technical support works very responsibly when we have questions. They connected remotely to our servers, performed an analysis and made detailed recommendations.

The initial installation was easy since there are very detailed instructions for almost every server configuration.

I managed to implement everything myself.

I think the software is very good.

At the moment, I have not encountered problems that I could not solve.