From an improvement perspective, I can't comment much about StarWind Storage Appliance since we use only two to three nodes in our company, with which I am currently happy. If I use the product at an enterprise level, maybe I could see some issues in it, which is something I don't have any experience with currently. With StarWind Storage Appliance, it would be better to have an overall easier setup with a little bit of configuration changes since, currently, even a small mistake may cause the setup process to go wrong.
Network Services Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
User
Jul 15, 2021
I'm really not sure what improvements are needed to the product. It works pretty well and I haven't seen anything that obviously needed improvement. We elected to do the physical installation ourselves, so they preconfigured the equipment and shipped it - complete with excellent installation instructions. Once we did the physical install, they connected remotely to do the final configuration and helped get us into production. They offered onsite installation, but we chose to do it ourselves. That took longer and was more work for us but saved us a ton of money in the end.
Director of IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Jun 4, 2020
It needs more integration with backup vendors so there is native integration with it that will allow storage level backup/snapshots. I would love to see integration with Veeam and Commvault so it can be recognized by them directly and added as network storage. It also will be great if it will be able to send weekly reports about the status of the storage, any issues, etc. More features that will provide how many IOPS you have per volume/disks, with nice charts, etc so you get some insight into what your environment is using.
StarWind Storage Appliance offers a user-friendly interface and cost-effective storage, featuring fast replication and iSCSI compatibility. Designed for efficiency, it excels in both standard and SSD hardware environments, supporting Microsoft Hyper-V Clusters and ensuring high availability for critical applications.The storage appliance integrates smoothly into diverse infrastructural setups, offering easy management with all-flash arrays to boost performance. It supports remote sites with...
StarWind Storage Appliance's demo version should be similar to the paid one.
From an improvement perspective, I can't comment much about StarWind Storage Appliance since we use only two to three nodes in our company, with which I am currently happy. If I use the product at an enterprise level, maybe I could see some issues in it, which is something I don't have any experience with currently. With StarWind Storage Appliance, it would be better to have an overall easier setup with a little bit of configuration changes since, currently, even a small mistake may cause the setup process to go wrong.
Other solutions, such as StorMagic, offer more flexibility in terms of handling caching and moving data between additional nodes.
The dashboard features are not in the free version. Today it is normal to have the full features in both versions and only pay for support.
I'm really not sure what improvements are needed to the product. It works pretty well and I haven't seen anything that obviously needed improvement. We elected to do the physical installation ourselves, so they preconfigured the equipment and shipped it - complete with excellent installation instructions. Once we did the physical install, they connected remotely to do the final configuration and helped get us into production. They offered onsite installation, but we chose to do it ourselves. That took longer and was more work for us but saved us a ton of money in the end.
StarWind no longer sells HDDs for primary storage.
It needs more integration with backup vendors so there is native integration with it that will allow storage level backup/snapshots. I would love to see integration with Veeam and Commvault so it can be recognized by them directly and added as network storage. It also will be great if it will be able to send weekly reports about the status of the storage, any issues, etc. More features that will provide how many IOPS you have per volume/disks, with nice charts, etc so you get some insight into what your environment is using.
They could improve by providing integration with HP.
An improvement would be if they reached out to education customers with other available products.