G2

Dylan F.

Systems Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/4/2026

"Seamless Hyper-V High Availability with Clear, Repeatable VM Replication Recovery"

5/5

What do you like best about StarWind Virtual SAN?

What I liked best about StarWind Virtual SAN was how well it fit into our normal Hyper-V operations. It gave us a straightforward way to keep VMs replicated to the other cluster as part of our standard deployment process, and when we needed to rebuild replication, the recovery steps were clear and repeatable. The biggest value for us was having practical high availability and easier recovery built into everyday infrastructure management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StarWind Virtual SAN?

What I disliked most was the troubleshooting complexity when replication or checkpoints ran into problems. In normal operation, StarWind fit well into our Hyper-V workflow, but when something broke, recovery could involve multiple manual steps like stopping replication, removing stale cluster objects, deleting replica-side storage, and reconfiguring replication through the replica broker. That made it powerful, but not completely simple during exception handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StarWind Virtual SAN solving and how is that benefiting you?

StarWind Virtual SAN is solving our need for highly available, recoverable VM storage across our Hyper-V cluster environment. It helps us avoid having workloads depend on a single host or storage location, and it makes replication to the other cluster part of our standard VM deployment process. The business benefit is better uptime protection, more consistent resilience across systems, and faster recovery when replication or host issues occur, because we can re-establish protection through a documented process rather than rebuilding services from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.