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StarWind Virtual SAN on Windows Server 2019

StarWind | 8.0.0.14398a

Windows, Windows Server 2019 Base Windows Server 2019 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Georgeadis A.

StarWind SAN

  • October 27, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The solutions that I have tried and used are really great, very easy to configure, they just make your job much easier. You don't need to be an expert to configure and manage it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think license management in VMware environments is a problem for now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It really is very simple, it is very intuitive for configuration and monitoring.

    Neil W.

Great product with great support

  • October 25, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Support
Ease of configuration
Flexibility of configuration
What do you dislike about the product?
Some areas of documentation seem limited
Monitoring
Console could do with a bit of a tidy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use StarWind Virtual SAN in a dynamic Lab environment. Used by multiple systems within the Lab. Used with varried OSes (Windows, Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, etc). Allows Labs to be setup, tested, demonstrated then archived for future use.

    Keneth R.

Great Hypervisor Storage Platform

  • October 19, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The user interface for this application is amazing, it's very easy to learn from the beginning and it has a great introductory period that allows you to get used to everything that the software has to offer. I can also say that another BIG advantage for this application is the amazing customer support that they offer, they are able to answer your questions very quickly and they are always available at the most important times.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having a large support for filesystems is important to our organization, as we sometimes used propietary filesystems like WekaFS for some of the tasks at hand. Specially in the era of Exascale computing, having support for additional features like importing filesystems and be able to do some testing with them is important. Besides not being able to use any filesystem I do not have any additional cons.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool allows my team to be able to deploy NAS solutions in real time, virtually so that we can test those solutions in a quick and easy way before they are needed to be deployed in the real world. This saves in costs of actually having to deploy a physical environment to test and also allows my team to work from anywhere at anytime, which is important in the current times when remote work is vital to the proper workflow at our company.

    Michael J. G.

Using StarWind for 10 years and still love it!

  • October 14, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
3-Way (Active-Active-Active) true High-Availibility.
Flexible, Scaleable, Reliable & Cost Effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
No IPv6 support
No linux installer (they do have a linux VM)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Distributed storage for our Virtualization environment as well as SAN & Disaster Recovery.

    Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

The most customizable storage solution I've ever used

  • October 13, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I love how customizable Starwind is. You can set it up to fit your infrastructure instead of the other way around. It's also the most affordable storage solution I have ever used. Their support is great and knows their product well. A lot of software-defined storage solutions force you to work with very specific hardware and configurations, but Starwind will work with your current solution, and they will support it too.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's missing some of the flashier GUI components and handholding of the more expensive solutions, so less experienced admins might be a little intimidated at first, but their support will help you with the initial setup and make sure you are good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's saved us 80% on our storage cost from our previous solution. It's also saved us from expanding our rack footprint, as we can utilize our existing hosts for both compute and storage.

    Lukas W.

Quite fast setup and active Support

  • October 13, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Starwind Virtual SAN is the perfect solution for our redundant 2 Node VMware Vsphere system. The GUI is self-explanatory, and there are Step-by-step guides on how to set it up on the Starwind Website. When we ran into a problem, support answered our Email within minutes, and we could continue setting up.
What do you dislike about the product?
It took us a few hours to find an error in the iSCSI setup. The GUI only showed that one partner node had no connection, although the heartbeat and sync interface seemed to be online.

In the end, we found a solution in a Starwind forum. The Problem was just our setup rather than on Starwind's side.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Starwind Virtual SAN for a HyperConverged 2 Node VMware MS-Windows Server 2019 Cluster. It provides HA iSCSI virtual drive space for our SMB file share. In case of a power outage or system failure, the workload will be shifted to the partner node within seconds so that the file share has practically no downtime.

    Tyler F.

Stable product with great customer support at an affordable price

  • October 09, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It is "set and forget." I've administered two StarWind VSAN clusters for 5+ years; it's always been rock solid. Updates are simple to perform. I had an issue I caused myself that was quickly fixed by support staff.
What do you dislike about the product?
I honestly am not aware of any downsides. In the past, I would've said I wasn't a fan of using Windows virtual machines, but they began offering a Linux appliance for their vSphere offering years ago.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're VMware customers, but we began using StarWind VSAN before VMware VSAN was very well established. It works just as well but at a more affordable price. I'm not sure if VMware has an option for a 2-node cluster, but I know in the past 3 nodes was minimum, which was a large difference for our relatively meager IT budget.

    Construction

Great Product Backed by Even Greater Service

  • September 30, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about the product is its simplicity. A product that provides so much functionality yet is provisioned with no complication is what we like the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing we dislike about this product. If I had to be super picky, the only roadblock we ever hit with this product was the inability to shrink an image once provisioned. But this is not a limitation in the product itself but the actual underlying storage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping us serve storage to our entire infrastructure with ease of use. We can provide resiliency and scale to our infrastructure and introduce new nodes without impacting the end user.

    Brandon R.

The best price and best performing SAN software I've used

  • September 21, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
We found StarWind when looking for alternatives to our current end-of-life Nutanix cluster, and it has done nothing but impress us. We could minimize implementation cost as it let us use our existing hardware, and the price of StarWind VSAN was less than 1/4th of all other solutions we were quoted. As a bonus, the raw performance has been better than all of the other solutions we tried.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most guides and whitepapers they provide are windows-centric and don't cover their Linux-based virtual appliance, so finding information on your own can be difficult. It also lacks a web interface which can be troublesome if you use a different solution that provides one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
StarWind Virtual SAN provides us the high-availability storage for 24/7 365 applications while requiring less maintenance and attention than other brands, but at a fraction of the price.

    Laurence B.

Easy to Use vSAN Solution with Great Support

  • September 20, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
• Very solid performance- the uptime has been exceptional.
• Easy to configure and administer
• Superb support
What do you dislike about the product?
• Some of the documentation could be better
• The pricing model is a bit confusing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to have a 3-node stretched cluster spanning 3 buildings which gives us great flexibility and redundancy.

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