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StarWind Virtual SAN pros and cons

Vendor: StarWind
4.8 out of 5
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PROS

StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and redundancy, allowing users to perform upgrades and maintenance without downtime.
It provides significant cost savings by being 80% cheaper than traditional SAN solutions while utilizing existing hardware.
The performance and reliability are rock-solid, ensuring uptime and supporting continuous transactions even under heavy workloads.
StarWind Virtual SAN is easy to set up and manage, providing intuitive interfaces and requiring minimal experience for configuration.
The support team is highly rated, offering proactive and responsive assistance, which enhances the overall user experience.

CONS

Users suggest that more detailed and comprehensive documentation is necessary, especially for various networking and HA configurations.
There are requests for increased automation in installation, configuration, and maintenance modes.
Many users feel the need for improved diagnostic, monitoring, and alert tools to enhance visibility and performance insights.
Users express a desire for better management of storage pools and more logical setups for disk redundancy and data duplication.
The need for speed improvements and advanced scalability is highlighted, alongside the inclusion of more efficient handling of hardware components.
 

StarWind Virtual SAN Pros review quotes

JM
Director of Technology at FAFCO, Inc.
Jul 11, 2018
Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest.
1981DMC - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Sys Admin at GP&L
Jul 11, 2018
The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup.
TXITGUY9000 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Jul 12, 2018
Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features.
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Jul 17, 2018
The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable.
it_user910362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
Jul 31, 2018
Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy.
DW
Adjunct Professor at Lone Star College
Aug 6, 2018
The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure.
LeonKan - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtual Cloud Admin at IST
Aug 16, 2018
You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage.
JL
System Administrator at a renewables & environment company with 51-200 employees
Aug 27, 2018
The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent.
AL
CEO at Simplify Technology
Sep 14, 2018
Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software.
DR
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC
Mar 19, 2019
Performance, reliability, I love the management console (once I got used to it).
 

StarWind Virtual SAN Cons review quotes

JM
Director of Technology at FAFCO, Inc.
Jul 11, 2018
Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date.
1981DMC - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Sys Admin at GP&L
Jul 11, 2018
It is difficult to control all of the hardware components.
TXITGUY9000 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Jul 12, 2018
Updates seem to be non-existent.
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Jul 17, 2018
I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management.
it_user910362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
Jul 31, 2018
An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it
DW
Adjunct Professor at Lone Star College
Aug 6, 2018
The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved.
LeonKan - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtual Cloud Admin at IST
Aug 16, 2018
Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console.
JL
System Administrator at a renewables & environment company with 51-200 employees
Aug 27, 2018
It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted.
AL
CEO at Simplify Technology
Sep 14, 2018
I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching.
DR
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC
Mar 19, 2019
The documentation is sub-par. The pre-sales documentation and information is sub-par.