We had non-virtualized and old infrastructure that needed to be upgraded. We use HCA for all of our servers.
Works
There was no need to buy additional hardware; everything came in the box
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We successfully migrated to a virtualized environment, storage performance was increased, and now we had a redundant, failure-tolerant infrastructure. With ProSAFE support, we are sure that our infrastructure is safe and we don't need highly specialized personnel to monitor our infrastructure 24/7.
StarWind HCA delivered us a complete solution that works out of the box. We received everything we needed to get it up and running.
What is most valuable?
StarWind HCA delivered us a complete solution that works out of the box. There was no need to buy additional hardware; everything came in a box. Also, the software was preinstalled.
What needs improvement?
Better overall monitoring software. Maybe integration with Windows Admin Center was a good direction to go with on monitoring software.
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One to three years.
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