StarWind Virtual SAN on Windows Server 2016
StarWind | 8.0.0.14398aWindows, Windows Server 2016 Base Windows Server 2016 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Intuitive and fast software
What do you like best about the product?
StarWind Virtual SAN is truly exceptional. Its user-friendliness and storage virtualization efficiency are impressive. The redundancy and scalability provided ensure high availability, while the straightforward management simplifies administration. A reliable investment for any virtual environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
StarWind Virtual SAN has its drawbacks. While it offers good performance, the initial setup can be complex, requiring significant technical expertise. Licensing costs can also be prohibitive for smaller organizations. Additionally, the lack of certain advanced features may limit its suitability for some enterprise-level applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Principalmente ao converter máquinas virtuais. Sua interface intuitiva e ferramentas fáceis de usar permitem uma migração perfeita entre vários formatos de VM. Com apenas alguns cliques, você pode adaptar e transferir VMs para diferentes ambientes, tornando o processo de conversão rápido e descomplicado.
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Stable, Performant, Great Support
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it is stable, performant, and Starwind provides great support
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI could look nicer if I'm nitpicking
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our primary use for StarWind Virtual SAN is to ensure exceptional performance and unwavering availability within our Hyper-V/Failover Cluster environment. This robust solution optimizes performance by reducing latency and improving productivity, essential for running concurrent virtualized workloads efficiently. Moreover, it guarantees near-zero downtime through a failover cluster configuration, enhancing our operational reliability and solidifying our reputation for delivering consistent, uninterrupted services. Our primary use for StarWind Virtual SAN is to ensure exceptional performance and unwavering availability within our Hyper-V/Failover Cluster environment. This robust solution optimizes performance by reducing latency and improving productivity, essential for running concurrent virtualized workloads efficiently. Moreover, it guarantees near-zero downtime through a failover cluster configuration, enhancing our operational reliability and solidifying our reputation for delivering consistent, uninterrupted services.
An easy to use Hyper-converged Cluster in a Box
What do you like best about the product?
StarWind provides a standard based way to set up clusters on commodtiy servers using the tools you already know like HyperV and VMware. On top of that their support is steller. They proactively alert and assist you all along the way. StarWind also
What do you dislike about the product?
My only gripe with StarWind is that they are reliant on certain commodity hardware products like Dell servers and their controllers. Sometimes those are hard to get due to supply chain issues. Not really a complaint, just something you need to be aware of
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were using very complex hardware solutions that were difficult to support and manage. StarWind allows us to use the tools we know like HyperV and easily manage our managed server clusters. The other problem problem was support with other products that were coming from different places. StarWind gave us great support before, during and after the sale.
True 2-node VSAN, perfect for SMB!
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate StarWind's ease of use in deployment and expansion and also its capabilities.
StarWind offers a true 2-node VSAN setup, where you only need 2 hypervisors to spin up a VSAN between them and it syncs in real-time on 10Gbps links between them. The user interface is pretty easy to use (once you get used to the lingo) and it's dead simple to increase the size of virtual disks.
Performance-wise, pretty wicked fast. You don't really notice the syncing performance when both hosts are up (obviously because it does it in the background), but if you take a host down for a few minutes then bring it back up, in the StarWind Console you can watch the virtual disk images on the downed host start syncing from the other host and watch it complete it, and it's pretty darn fast!
In VMware vSphere, too, you can use one of the 10Gbps links for VM migration, which is insanely speedy! Going from 1Gbps to 10Gbps links for VM migration was a dream come true for me.
StarWind offers a true 2-node VSAN setup, where you only need 2 hypervisors to spin up a VSAN between them and it syncs in real-time on 10Gbps links between them. The user interface is pretty easy to use (once you get used to the lingo) and it's dead simple to increase the size of virtual disks.
Performance-wise, pretty wicked fast. You don't really notice the syncing performance when both hosts are up (obviously because it does it in the background), but if you take a host down for a few minutes then bring it back up, in the StarWind Console you can watch the virtual disk images on the downed host start syncing from the other host and watch it complete it, and it's pretty darn fast!
In VMware vSphere, too, you can use one of the 10Gbps links for VM migration, which is insanely speedy! Going from 1Gbps to 10Gbps links for VM migration was a dream come true for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only real gripe I've found with StarWind is that the official documentation for setup can be a bit lackluster, and sometimes you'd get confused by what it's showing (for VMware, at least) versus what you're seeing on your setup.
Regardless of that frustration, you can (and should) reach out to their support and they'll walk you through it and answer any questions. At the time of writing, they include 1 year of support upon license purchase, so they'll help you with your deployment process.
Regardless of that frustration, you can (and should) reach out to their support and they'll walk you through it and answer any questions. At the time of writing, they include 1 year of support upon license purchase, so they'll help you with your deployment process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're a Visiting Nurse Association so it's pretty critical that we keep our infrastructure up, especially during the workday. Thus, we've had a physical SAN for years with RAID arrays to allow redundancy with our storage and, to pair with that, we had 2 physical hypervisors to run the workload.
StarWind offered me a true 2-node Virtual SAN solution to replace my aging SAN appliance and, in addition to that, offered higher performance storage for our agency. All this together allows us to boost our productivity with performance improvements, further disaster-proof our infrastructure with better redundancy, and provides us even more room for expansion.
After about 9 months of using StarWind, I'm very happy I went with their product for my storage needs.
StarWind offered me a true 2-node Virtual SAN solution to replace my aging SAN appliance and, in addition to that, offered higher performance storage for our agency. All this together allows us to boost our productivity with performance improvements, further disaster-proof our infrastructure with better redundancy, and provides us even more room for expansion.
After about 9 months of using StarWind, I'm very happy I went with their product for my storage needs.
Starwind vSAN HCI Cluster is the way to go
What do you like best about the product?
We used this as a 3 node cluster setup for 2 reasons. Prevent downtime during hardware failure or upgrades and to allow to easily expand storage as needed. Customer support is amazing too
What do you dislike about the product?
Starwind missed 2 features we wanted but did not require, which was encrtion and also deduplication. Another feature that would be nice later on is the avbility to handle high latency stretched DR so we dont need to use a 3rd part ysoftware.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Starwind solves the issue of having downtime when a node fails, when you want to upgrade a node or add storage. Normally when a node was full you would need to power down and add drives and hope there is now issue expanding the array. Problem solved with vsan
Starwind HCA, a scalable solution for SMB that won't break the bank
What do you like best about the product?
Fantastic hyper-converged solution for SMB. The price point and pricing options allow for SMB deployment of a plug and play, scalable solution. Starwind allows for organizations with a small budget to deploy a modern, robust HCA solution. Organizations that have a need for remote office deployments can find a resilient solution with Starwind HCA as well.
The ability to scale by simply adding additional nodes to the stack provides a unique opportunity.
The ability to scale by simply adding additional nodes to the stack provides a unique opportunity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Starwind Command Center single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V. I was disappointed to find there was no disclosure of VMware incompatibility so the single-pane management system was not available in a VMware environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions
TCO is lower versus traditional compute, storage, network architecture
Ability to scale with organization's needs created flexibility
TCO is lower versus traditional compute, storage, network architecture
Ability to scale with organization's needs created flexibility
StarWind VIrtual SAN
What do you like best about the product?
The thing I like best about Starwind are the stability and high availablity of the product. We have been using StarWind exclusively for back end storage at our data center. We have had zero down time and great performance with StarWind
What do you dislike about the product?
The one downside is that it is so flexible. Meaning that you have to plan out your installation ahead of time to get the most value. But StarWind support is great in helping out. And the flexibiliy is also a positive in that it enabled you to custom tailor the solution for your environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides an economical, yet highly available and high performing solution for our data center storage needs
StarWInd vSAN is a great solution to downsize on-site storage/costs when moving systems to the cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Affordable cost, ease of use, great support
What do you dislike about the product?
Little guidance provided on best way to conduct free trial
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allowed us to reduce on site storage costs when it was time to replace our end of life NetApp SAN. Reducing on site storage costs was one of the cost justification for moving systesm tot he cloud so StarWInd allowed us to meet our goals.
Simple solution to a (fairly) simple problem
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to use and setup, provides good redundancy and fault tolerance, and doesn't require expensive and external NAS or SAN iSCSI storage for your solution. It's simple, but great.
What do you dislike about the product?
The free version is not very easy to start setting up, as there is a lack of up-to-date resources in this department if you want to use the CLI for trying it out. The GUI could also use an update.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides us with a 2-node file server cluster with fault tolerant storage using just the built in disks, without having to use external iSCSI disks. This means we have much better uptime, can focus on less infrastucture and ease-of-use, instead of managing a costly, external SAN.
StarWind is an inexpensive, basic SAN platform
What do you like best about the product?
It's an order of magnitude less expensive than competing products.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its features are basic. It has limited reporting and monitoring capabilities, and performance parameters are largely opaque.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted to start offering VM hosting as a service for our clients, so we needed to set up a failover cluster. Starwind allowed us to do so affordably.
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