"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"There are so many features, but if I have to choose, I would go for scale-out upgrades and performance. Scale-out upgrades are very valuable. Typically, when customers engage in virtualization, they're committing themselves to run many virtual machines on a fewer number of hosts. They'll have five or six hosts, and they will run all their virtualization on vSphere. They could be having anywhere from 50 to 100 or even more virtual machines. Once all these go into production, getting downtime or getting planned maintenance windows is extremely difficult. It is something that typically businesses will frown upon. With VxRail, you can just go ahead and add a node without disrupting the existing environment, which works very well. That's why scale-out upgrades are a key feature. Its performance is also valuable. It delivers a very high number of IOPS for a hybrid configuration or an all-flash configuration. The processors that are available in the Xeon family are very powerful. They are multi-core with typically 2 gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz, or higher frequency, so the performance is very much appreciated."
"This is a good solution for medium-sized installations especially when it will be coupled with VMware."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"We are very happy with the purchase, and it works well. It is fast. We went with the full-flash version, meaning that we have SSDs. So, we can build a Windows virtual machine in two minutes. We were surprised when we first tried to do that."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"It helps our servers and it is very efficient."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"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 see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"I would like to see more solutions for satellite capabilities where we can put it into smaller locations and still have the redundancy that we have with a larger cluster."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"I would love to see license migration from one host to another."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
"We have some issues, but they are possibly out-of-the-box issues. There was a host that was dead on arrival, and there were some file issues on other hosts. We're currently working actively with Dell to resolve all these issues. Once they are resolved, the product should be stable."
"Pricing could be improved."
"They're getting better with their one-click upgrade. The success factor is now between 85% to 87% with the latest release. They should just continuously improve on that one-click factor and make it more seamless."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 5th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 46 reviews while VxRail is ranked 3rd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 84 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Good automation makes this solution practical". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Dell PowerFlex and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VxRail report.
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