1. Simplified Infrastructure

2. Knowledgeable support

3. High performance

4. Easy Migration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I do not like about this product. It's overall an awesome experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Powerful

- Effective Managemnt of Storage wit VSAN

- Great Support and ease to manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much, a very good approach to manage storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Affordable, easy to manage, and very reliable. Haven't had any hardware issues and the software has been solid. The real highlight is the support though. From the initial purchasing process, to the setup and configuration, to firmware updates and maintenance - the support is always top notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have no major complaints. The StarWind Command Center (web portal) is a bit slow and clunky for me so I usually manage things from the node OS, but that's a minor nitpick since I don't have to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We like the very fast performance and useability of the whole System. It's easy to calculate your true needs for your environment and you will get an offer, that is designed for your scenario. Everything is well documented on their wiki pages, as an example, you can browse through every compatible NIC and OS and adjust if needed. You can expand your storage at any time and have zero downtime. Overall we would say that the performance, useability and flexibility are what we like most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not something that we dislike about their HCA systems. Perhaps a minor complaint would be the limitation of the maximum PCI-e slots on the mainboards and some confusing configurations you have to make on VMWare ESXI on previous versions, but it is a minor complaint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplified management, Cost Saving on hardware and Support on hand

Having additional support always helps so you know you always have someone else looking over your system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The control centre doesn't have email notifications No auto update of the control centre Auto patching of windows can be problematic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having HA ability with immediate failover is necessary for our horse show environment. The ability to do system updates and software upgrades without kicking users off is a real advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can say that we have any dislikes with the Starwind software. Implementation and service have been great. The servers have been rock solid without any real issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked how the unit came almost ready to go. They preconfigure the IP addresses, and names for you. All I had to do was add it to the existing cluster (VMware Horizon View), setup networking and I was ready to move VM's across to the HCA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that StarWind's documentation is a little sparse. But I will say that the start up document to get the HCA going was very complete. This is just my preference but I would have preferred HP hardware over Dell. But that's me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very easy to setup, the product is intuitive. Easy scalable and very stable. Their technical support is outstanding and very easy to work with. Easy to update to new version, does not require any advanced knowledge in storage or networking to be able to support it on a day to day basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, there is not much to dislike about the product. It just works. I wish they have some kind of certification that you can setup and configure the solution and get certified in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

These appliances are great for VM clusters, combining storage, network, and compute resources in a single package. StarWind's Virtual SAN software replicates storage in the background, letting each node in the cluster use its own local storage instead of having to create an actual storage network. The ease between setting up the HCA appliances and my previous setup is significant, as is ongoing maintenance.

StarWind also offers ProActive Support that remotely monitors the appliances and automatically opens a ticket and initiates contact when a problem is discovered. As the only IT employee here, it's been pretty swish.

It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and 3 years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CSVs require the storage be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local. It imparts a small performance hit that's easily overshadowed by the performance increase from getting off 1GB ethernet.

The Virtual SAN setup also requires more actual storage than a traditional SAN. My two-node cluster means I need double the amount of physical storage before any RAID is taken into account. A two-node cluster with RAID 1 means 1/4 of the storage you purchase is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Starwind allowed us to upgrade our hardware and continue to make use of all our skillsets, tools and backup appliances. Migration was a breeze and was handled 100% by StarWind. Hardware is top-notch all-flash Dell servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were a few hiccups with the setup, but it was expected and had nothing to do with StarWind. Support was great; I would have liked more of a portal or direct connection to the representative helping me rather than an email and waiting for a response. I would appreciate it if vendors, including StarWind, would go the extra step to create (and maybe test) UPS shutdown scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.