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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance vs StarWind Virtual SAN comparison

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance and StarWind Virtual SAN are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked #12 with an average rating of 10.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.3. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance holds a 2.1% mindshare in SDS, compared to StarWind Virtual SAN’s 5.6% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of StarWind Virtual SAN users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

StarWind Virtual SAN and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance compete in the virtual storage and hyper-converged infrastructure space. While both products have their merits, StarWind HyperConverged Appliance seems to have the upper hand with its integrated turnkey solution, providing a more comprehensive package that appeals to users seeking hassle-free deployments.

Features: StarWind Virtual SAN is known for storage virtualization, asynchronous replication, and high availability, allowing for performance improvements and redundancy. It is praised for its affordability and the capability to leverage existing hardware. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers a complete solution with hardware and software, known for exceptional flexibility and performance, making it ideal for anyone desiring a streamlined hyper-converged infrastructure.

Room for Improvement: StarWind Virtual SAN users suggest more comprehensive documentation and an improved management interface. Enhancing iSCSI automation and alternative system integration would also be beneficial. For StarWind HyperConverged Appliance, feedback requests better documentation and updates to reporting tools, along with more intuitive user interfaces to simplify complex configurations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind Virtual SAN is praised for its easy deployment, thanks to its software-defined nature, allowing versatility across various hardware. Customer support is proactive, ensuring successful implementations. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance provides simplicity with a pre-configured setup, supported by comprehensive customer service facilitating seamless deployment and troubleshooting.

Pricing and ROI: StarWind Virtual SAN is cost-effective, offering substantial savings for small to medium-sized businesses because of its software-only model, leading to positive ROI by reducing downtime and maintenance costs. Though StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is more expensive due to hardware inclusion, users recognize its competitive pricing for an all-encompassing solution, noting a quick ROI due to performance improvements and complexity reduction.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.6
Pure Storage FlashBlade reduces total cost of ownership by enhancing efficiency, enabling fast restorations, and supporting diverse use cases.
Sentiment score
6.8
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance reduced costs, improved stability, and streamlined operations, quickly achieving substantial ROI and enhancing management efficiency.
Sentiment score
6.9
StarWind Virtual SAN offers cost-effective, flexible storage solutions reducing operational costs, downtime, and hardware needs, with rapid ROI.
It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.
Parul-Patel
Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.
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We don't sell a lot of redundant servers, so it's not a massive ROI, but the ability to rely on their technical support and the software's ease of setup allows us to reduce labor costs and go to market competitively.
Kyle Buxton
Manager, Field Support at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The cost benefits, as far as we consider, are much better with a StarWind VSAN solution, and the training requirements with the ease of administration simplify and reduce our administrator and professional services costs.
Julian Clarke
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Regarding cost savings, for my client, it was about 20K USD for his specific use and as for extending capacity, StarWind made that process easy.
Vladimir Simion
Pre Post Sales Engineer at Logiccomputer
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Parul-Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
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Vladimir Simion - PeerSpot reviewer
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.6
Pure Storage FlashBlade's support is generally praised for responsiveness, despite occasional delays and communication issues, maintaining a favorable reputation.
Sentiment score
8.5
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance's 24/7 customer service is praised for quick responses, proactive monitoring, and expertise despite language barriers.
Sentiment score
7.8
StarWind Virtual SAN offers exceptional support with timely responses, expert staff, and 24/7 proactive monitoring for optimal performance.
I would rate them an eight out of ten.
Redy ERIYAWAN
IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.
Parul-Patel
Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.
Their technical support has been perfect lately, so I would give it a 10.
MikaelHellström
IT Manager at Regin Dalarna
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Even in the instances where my technical team does not have the ability to manage or troubleshoot or resolve an issue, StarWind's technical team supports and resolves on our behalf very quickly.
Julian Clarke
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
They have some awesome guides online that show you exactly how to configure the product, how to do the initial setup, and you can speak with them directly who will be able to connect, verify your setup, run its parameters, and see exactly what's working and what is not, and adjust it, and they really help you with that.
Vladimir Simion
Pre Post Sales Engineer at Logiccomputer
The customer support from StarWind Virtual SAN is great, as the people are knowledgeable and have great knowledge about the product and the functionality we require in the system.
Jccerong Heron
System Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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Parul-Patel - PeerSpot reviewerMikaelHellström - PeerSpot reviewer
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Vladimir Simion - PeerSpot reviewerJccerong Heron - PeerSpot reviewer
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Pure Storage FlashBlade excels in scalability, with seamless expansion, downtime-free growth, and praised support across various sectors.
Sentiment score
7.9
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers scalable options for SMBs, supporting expansion through nodes, RAM, or storage to align with cloud strategies.
Sentiment score
7.6
StarWind Virtual SAN impresses users with seamless scalability, allowing effortless upgrades and configurations without downtime, supporting various setups.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.
Parul-Patel
Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.
There are between 5 and 10,000 people using it in our organization.
MikaelHellström
IT Manager at Regin Dalarna
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If we want to expand our storage or add disks, it is easy to add them, configure the RAID, and then deploy it.
Christian Nissia
IT Support Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I believe that scalability should be further improved, especially considering the possibility that environments may grow exponentially.
WJHG
Soporte IT at Sildan Security
When you move from a two-node cluster to a three-node cluster, you have to completely redo the way that they are connected to each other with iSCSI.
Tyler Lejeune
Manager of Systems Administration at Monster Digital
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Parul-Patel - PeerSpot reviewerMikaelHellström - PeerSpot reviewerChristian Nissia - PeerSpot reviewerWJHG - PeerSpot reviewer
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Pure Storage FlashBlade offers exceptional reliability and impressive stability, featuring 99.999% uptime, seamless upgrades, and high performance.
Sentiment score
8.7
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers exceptional stability, zero downtime, excellent support, and ease of use, ensuring reliable performance.
Sentiment score
8.4
StarWind Virtual SAN offers stable, reliable performance with minimal issues, seamless updates, and efficient VM migrations, even during failures.
In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.
Redy ERIYAWAN
IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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In my experience, StarWind Virtual SAN is very stable, and I have never had a single instability issue.
Julian Clarke
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It has been working for five years and the customer is still happy with it.
Vladimir Simion
Pre Post Sales Engineer at Logiccomputer
I ran it on a two-node Hyper-V cluster setup, and I didn't experience any unexpected crashes or major issues.
Daniel Philot
Hosting Operations Senior Analyst at Equinix Brasil
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Vladimir Simion - PeerSpot reviewerDaniel Philot - PeerSpot reviewer
 

Room For Improvement

Users recommend better pricing, cloud integration, support, documentation, and analytics for Pure Storage FlashBlade, improving efficiency and compatibility.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance needs hardware, software, and management improvements, with focus on Linux support and streamlined scalability.
StarWind Virtual SAN needs better documentation, automation, integration, setup simplification, monitoring, and feature enhancements like deduplication and encryption.
Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.
Parul-Patel
Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.
Its configuration should be easier.
Redy ERIYAWAN
IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
One way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray and FlashBlade.
MikaelHellström
IT Manager at Regin Dalarna
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A more intuitive interface or an improved dashboard for monitoring the cluster would also be helpful, as it would facilitate performance tracking and help identify potential issues before they affect services.
WJHG
Soporte IT at Sildan Security
There have been cases where not understanding exactly what's failing on the Virtual SAN has been an issue.
Kyle Buxton
Manager, Field Support at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Limited feedback in the management GUI is the main area where I would like to see StarWind Virtual SAN get better.
Julian Clarke
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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Parul-Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
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MikaelHellström - PeerSpot reviewerWJHG - PeerSpot reviewer
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Setup Cost

Pure Storage FlashBlade is costly but valued for performance, reliability, and reduced administrative overhead, justifying its premium price.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers competitive, cost-effective pricing, significantly cheaper than competitors like Nutanix, with transparent, all-inclusive fees.
StarWind Virtual SAN is competitively priced, simple to license, easy to implement, and offers excellent value with flexible options.
The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.
Parul-Patel
Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.
Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.
MikaelHellström
IT Manager at Regin Dalarna
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The costs are acceptable and very competitive compared to other hardware-only HCI solutions.
Julian Clarke
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I talked to the sales team, they gave me a quote with a perpetual license with the support and everything went through smoothly.
Vladimir Simion
Pre Post Sales Engineer at Logiccomputer
This is a great product and good support even you are using free version!
Jose Escario
Infrastructure Manager at Beacon Fronline Solutions Inc
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Parul-Patel - PeerSpot reviewerMikaelHellström - PeerSpot reviewer
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Vladimir Simion - PeerSpot reviewer
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Valuable Features

Pure Storage FlashBlade excels with ease of use, fast performance, scalability, seamless integration, and efficient storage features.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance provides ease of use, high availability, flexible deployment, and cost-effective, reliable performance with excellent support.
StarWind Virtual SAN offers cost-effective, high performance solutions with easy management, excellent support, and seamless integration for various platforms.
We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.
Redy ERIYAWAN
IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The best features of Pure Storage FlashBlade include better throughput and better performance.
Parul-Patel
Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.
Pure Storage FlashBlade's scalability is one of the most valuable features, and importantly, it always works, allowing for seamless upgrades.
MikaelHellström
IT Manager at Regin Dalarna
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Thanks to its seamless integration with Proxmox, the implementation of high availability servers has drastically reduced downtime, which is crucial for our security-focused company.
WJHG
Soporte IT at Sildan Security
StarWind Virtual SAN helps us keep customer satisfaction and provides the solutions we need without having to hire many IT specialists.
Kyle Buxton
Manager, Field Support at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
StarWind's storage virtualization and failover capabilities have made a difference for my clusters through uptime improvements, with zero downtime specific to server host maintenance or even maintenance of the StarWind software itself.
Julian Clarke
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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Parul-Patel - PeerSpot reviewerMikaelHellström - PeerSpot reviewerWJHG - PeerSpot reviewer
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JC
 

Categories and Ranking

Pure Storage FlashBlade
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Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (15th), File and Object Storage (8th)
StarWind HyperConverged App...
Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
12th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
HCI (15th)
StarWind Virtual SAN
Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
1st
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
204
Ranking in other categories
HCI (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 3.5%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is 2.1%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StarWind Virtual SAN is 5.6%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Defined Storage (SDS) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
StarWind Virtual SAN5.6%
Pure Storage FlashBlade3.5%
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance2.1%
Other88.8%
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
 

Featured Reviews

MikaelHellström - PeerSpot reviewer
MikaelHellström
IT Manager at Regin Dalarna
Has handled backup storage needs reliably and supports seamless upgrades
In environments requiring high throughput and low latency, Pure Storage FlashBlade provides high throughput and normal latency, but we do not have any application that requires low latency right now, so the latency of three to five milliseconds is considered kind of high. Pure Storage FlashBlade's ability to integrate with enterprise applications is not important for us, as we only want to present an S3 bucket for our backup, which we have done, and it works very fast. We use the Purity software's data reduction techniques; we have a backup software that compresses everything before sending it to the S3 bucket, achieving a data reduction of 1.1 to one. I would recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade to other companies because it's a very fast and scalable solution for anyone who needs it. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution an 8.
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Russ Le Puill - PeerSpot reviewer
Russ Le Puill
IT Manager at St Peter's Church of England Aided School
Proactive support with improved speed and resilience
There was a long delay with shipping, which we weren't expecting, but we were kept updated throughout. It wasn't made clear to us that we needed to provide our own SFP modules to connect to our infrastructure, so that could have been a bit clearer. It would be amazing if there was, perhaps, a more automated process for updating the hosts themselves, although the maintenance mode works well. Our StarWind command center doesn't seem to have all the options available currently, which support is investigating for us.
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Jccerong Heron - PeerSpot reviewer
Jccerong Heron
System Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Support team has guided us through deploying virtual storage on legacy hardware and reducing operational costs
The reason I chose StarWind Virtual SAN for this particular scenario is really the features, the ease of use, and most importantly, the price. In my opinion, the best features StarWind Virtual SAN offers are easy integration with the system installed in the data center. The integration with my existing systems in the data center works well, especially with VMware, as we already have a big cluster in VMware, and the easy integration with that is helpful to solve some problems with the platform. StarWind Virtual SAN has positively impacted my organization by reducing OPEX costs. My OPEX costs have gone down as we reutilize some old servers, and this reduces the CAPEX of hardware in the data center.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
17%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise21
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business165
Midsize Enterprise54
Large Enterprise34
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power out...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?
Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making...
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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?
In my opinion, one way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StarWind HyperConverged Appliance?
It's not the cheapest, however, the solution works incredibly well and is so simple to licence and maintain.
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What needs improvement with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance?
There was a long delay with shipping, which we weren't expecting, but we were kept updated throughout. It wasn't made...
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What is your primary use case for StarWind HyperConverged Appliance?
We desperately needed to update yet downsize our data centre. We had six hosts for only approximately 14 or so Virtua...
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What do you like most about StarWind Virtual SAN?
It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combin...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StarWind Virtual SAN?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very good. We were able to get the software at a good cost....
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What needs improvement with StarWind Virtual SAN?
The only thing that I would say about documentation is there are some aspects of the documentation that are a little ...
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Overview

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Pure Storage

For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA. 

StarWind

StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

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