"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"It's quite easy to install."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"We also substantially reduced network complexity by eliminating that standalone SAN. That reduced complexity has allowed us to concentrate on improving other areas of our network."
"The low cost of this solution has also made a big difference in our budget, which has been very helpful."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"The StarWind array has greatly improved our workflow internally as it is quite easy to use and provides robust features that allow us to provide anything our clients need quickly and efficiently."
"The full suite of redundancy gives a nice sense of security for the whole environment."
"The pricing and discounts given by Starwind on the hardware were unmatched."
"The presence of built-in storage saved the company from having to purchase a separate storage array and related network equipment."
"It is a safe, fast, and cost-effective storage system that improved our systems to have zero downtime."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"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"
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Support could be better."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"Product shipments did have a few bumps along the way, but that's to be expected when using any shipping company."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
"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."
"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."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"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."
"Multi cluster support for their Command Console would be very beneficial. Currently, you can only work with a single cluster at a time. The console is new so I expect much growth in this area in the near future. The other area that could be improved is the tech support locale."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 16th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 2 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 33 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 9.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series writes "Stable with good pricing and pretty good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Flexible and easy to set up with excellent support". Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VxRail, VMware vSAN, NetApp HCI and StorMagic SvSAN.
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