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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance pros and cons

Vendor: StarWind
4.8 out of 5

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PROS

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers high availability, ensuring that critical data and applications are always accessible despite potential hardware failures.
The device comes preconfigured, simplifying the setup process and allowing for plug-and-play functionality that enhances ease of use.
Customer support has been rated highly, with proactive premium support services that minimize monitoring efforts and quickly resolve arising issues.
Redundancy features are prominent, providing robust failover capabilities to maintain operations smoothly through various scenarios.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance greatly reduces the hardware footprint by integrating multiple functionalities into less physical space, leading to cost savings and reduced energy consumption.

CONS

A hardware subscription plan for routine updates in conjunction with the hyper-converged software is desired.
The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is not entirely enterprise-ready and is more suitable for SMBs.
Initial configuration is technical and error-prone, requiring StarWind to perform it as a service.
Communication between Dell EMC support and StarWind support could be improved.
Documentation could be clearer and more comprehensive for administrators.
 

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance Pros review quotes

Russ Le Puill - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at St Peter's Church of England Aided School
Sep 17, 2024
The StarWind command centre is a very handy tool to have. It allows less skilled staff to have a view and manage our virtual machines.
reviewer2084550 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at Inflexion
Jan 25, 2023
StarWind's proactive support is my favorite feature.
reviewer1671795 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at Southeast Aerospace, Inc.
Nov 15, 2022
The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost.
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dchapman - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at Tryon International Equestrian Center & Resort
Sep 22, 2022
Being able to upgrade machines and software during business operations just by switching nodes has been a huge improvement. We
Artur Eichmann - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemadministrator at WebID
Sep 18, 2022
The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests.
reviewer1945293 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Do It All at Western Idaho Cabinets, Inc.
Aug 22, 2022
Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing.
ggazeley - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Aug 11, 2022
The customer service has been the most valuable feature of the product to me.
JC
Systems Analyst at The Bethany Group
Aug 11, 2022
Their support team is extremely helpful, and they are pretty friendly and knowledgeable.
DR
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC
May 18, 2022
I do like that I can manage StarWind with a console running on my local desktop.
reviewer1852095 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems/Network Administrator at Storm Industries, Inc.
May 4, 2022
The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions.
 

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance Cons review quotes

Russ Le Puill - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at St Peter's Church of England Aided School
Sep 17, 2024
It would be amazing if there was, perhaps, a more automated process for updating the hosts themselves, although the maintenance mode works well.
reviewer2084550 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at Inflexion
Jan 25, 2023
Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part.
reviewer1671795 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at Southeast Aerospace, Inc.
Nov 15, 2022
The only area that surprised me had to do with the fact that each host runs a StarWind virtual machine used to maintain the health of the vSAN, which individually uses 24GB of memory per host. You should keep this in mind when determining the resources you will need when selecting hardware and components for your specific setup. If I knew that, I would have chosen to add more memory per host to make up for the use.
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dchapman - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at Tryon International Equestrian Center & Resort
Sep 22, 2022
We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed.
Artur Eichmann - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemadministrator at WebID
Sep 18, 2022
What would have to be done urgently is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration.
reviewer1945293 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Do It All at Western Idaho Cabinets, Inc.
Aug 22, 2022
I'd like a better UI and some limitations on "breaking it."
ggazeley - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Aug 11, 2022
The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work.
JC
Systems Analyst at The Bethany Group
Aug 11, 2022
The only thing that can use improvement is the StarWind Management Console and Command Center.
DR
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC
May 18, 2022
Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse.
reviewer1852095 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems/Network Administrator at Storm Industries, Inc.
May 4, 2022
An emphasis on security can be improved.