StarWind HyperConverged Appliance's most valuable features include live migration, easy management, high availability, proactive support, cost-effectiveness, seamless storage integration, redundancy, and hardware flexibility. Users appreciate its user-friendly interface, significant performance increase, minimal downtime, and reduced management complexity. The system's reliability and excellent support with proactive monitoring enhance operational efficiency and ensure business continuity. It offers a comprehensive solution with a small footprint, providing peace of mind and streamlined operations.
- "The StarWind command centre is a very handy tool to have. It allows less skilled staff to have a view and manage our virtual machines."
- "StarWind's proactive support is my favorite feature."
- "The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance could improve with hardware subscription plans, better power outage processes, enhanced monitoring with web consoles, customized GUI, clearer documentation, and improved user interface. Pricing expectations and shipping logistics need attention. Communication and tech support experiences could be improved. There's a call for greater multisite capacity management and automated processes for updates. Some find certain management tasks cumbersome and prefer more straightforward implementations, while others note challenges with Windows reliance.
- "It would be amazing if there was, perhaps, a more automated process for updating the hosts themselves, although the maintenance mode works well."
- "Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
- "The only area that surprised me had to do with the fact that each host runs a StarWind virtual machine used to maintain the health of the vSAN, which individually uses 24GB of memory per host. You should keep this in mind when determining the resources you will need when selecting hardware and components for your specific setup. If I knew that, I would have chosen to add more memory per host to make up for the use."
