"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"The most valuable aspect of StarWind is the all-in-one solution that they provide."
"I do like that I can manage StarWind with a console running on my local desktop."
"The option to deploy a hyper-converged system without an expensive storage switch was a benefit."
"We also opted for 24-hour support monitoring for any issues. They are extremely quick to respond on issues we even cause ourselves such as bumping a network cable."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"How quickly the StarWind solution replicates also gives us the confidence to know that in the event of catastrophic failure of any piece of hardware, we won't be far behind before things went wrong."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"The installation is complex."
"A possible thing is perhaps a customer portal to schedule a time with support online via a calendar."
"The only issue we have seen is with the StarWind Server Manager. We have had to continually reboot the server in order to use it."
"Shipping options should be explained in detail and offer more white glove delivery options even if it comes at an additional cost for some SMBs without docks."
"I honestly cannot think of anything else to be improved, as I rarely have to interact with the Starwind product."
"The web-managed interface (a separate VM) could be better."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
"The overall product documentation and knowledgebase articles could use some rewriting and clarification."
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 13th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 3 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 33 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 7.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Stable with good technical support and the capability to scale". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Flexible and easy to set up with excellent support". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, Nutanix Acropolis AOS and Rubrik, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VxRail, VMware vSAN, NetApp HCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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