StarWind Virtual SAN Pros
The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment.
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reviewer1828902
I.T. Director at MBI
It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it.
View full review »A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic.
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StarWind Virtual SAN
April 2022
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The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing.
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reviewer1830756
System Administrator at Wilson Logistics
This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime.
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reviewer1825488
Director Of Technical Services at D-J Engineering Group Inc.
Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn.
View full review »Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working.
View full review »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.
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reviewer1823307
Field Engineering Lead at Superior Support Resources, Inc.
The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across.
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Poberezhnyy Maxim
Engineer at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure.
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The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation.
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reviewer1828902
I.T. Director at MBI
I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things.
View full review »The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive.
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StarWind Virtual SAN
April 2022
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I would like to see different levels of support offered.
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reviewer1830756
System Administrator at Wilson Logistics
Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items.
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reviewer1825488
Director Of Technical Services at D-J Engineering Group Inc.
We just need more integration with Veeam.
View full review »A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful.
View full review »Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk.
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reviewer1823307
Field Engineering Lead at Superior Support Resources, Inc.
The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers.
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Poberezhnyy Maxim
Engineer at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers.
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StarWind Virtual SAN
April 2022
Learn what your peers think about StarWind Virtual SAN. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2022.
599,220 professionals have used our research since 2012.