"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"With StarWind's Proactive monitoring we can go about our day helping our customers and not have to worry about our cluster's health."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions."
"The pricing and discounts given by Starwind on the hardware were unmatched."
"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."
"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."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"The sales process is easy."
"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."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"The truth is that the operation and support offered is good, but we consider that the product's usability could improve, as well as the data resynchronization time after an unexpected closure."
"It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind."
"Product shipments did have a few bumps along the way, but that's to be expected when using any shipping company."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"The only issues are when Hyper V itself has limitations and I'd love to see support or enhancement in the area of direct-attached GPU cards."
"We have to pay for support, which is high-end support. That can be expensive, at least for us."
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Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 6 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 33 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "A unified support structure is an important asset; manual upgrades should be automated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Flexible and easy to set up with excellent support". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VxRail, VMware vSAN and NetApp HCI. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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