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PROS

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance significantly reduced the hardware footprint by allowing two 2U servers to replace four 2U servers, increasing processing capacity while maintaining storage capacity.
The appliance provides a cost-effective, highly available infrastructure, offering redundancy and reliability that reduces downtime and power consumption in data centers.
StarWind has been praised for its quick installation, simplified management, and capability to consolidate servers, improving performance and storage capacity with all-flash storage at a lower cost.
The customer support offered by StarWind is highly regarded, known for being proactive, quick, and knowledgeable in addressing hardware issues and providing smooth migration to virtualized environments.
StarWind greatly enhances system performance, offering high availability and robust redundancy, thus substantially improving user experience and reducing stress on IT infrastructure.

CONS

Communication issues existed between Dell EMC and StarWind, leading to delays in problem identification.
The pre-installation questionnaire was confusing and ambiguous.
There were difficulties during the transition from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Hyper-V 2019.
The management console required a facelift and improvements in ease of use.
Shipping encountered some bumps with occasional issues reaching certain sites.
 

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.
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
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Artur Eichmann - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemadministrator at WebID
Sep 18, 2022
The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests.
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.
MD
Owner at Quo Vadimus LLC
Jul 29, 2022
We were able to set it up via the documentation and only needed their support a handful of times.
Carl Marshall - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Winchester Utility System
Apr 20, 2022
It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on.
Igor Beck - PeerSpot reviewer
IT-Administrator at Milchwerk Jäger GmbH
Apr 11, 2022
It is a safe, fast, and cost-effective storage system that improved our systems to have zero downtime.
reviewer1822314 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure and Networks at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Mar 29, 2022
The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects.
reviewer1823316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Kanal 75
Mar 28, 2022
The most valuable aspect of StarWind is the all-in-one solution that they provide.
 

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.
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.
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Artur Eichmann - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemadministrator at WebID
Sep 18, 2022
What would have to be done urgently, however, is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration.
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.
MD
Owner at Quo Vadimus LLC
Jul 29, 2022
The user interface needs an update for the Windows client.
Carl Marshall - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Winchester Utility System
Apr 20, 2022
CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local.
Igor Beck - PeerSpot reviewer
IT-Administrator at Milchwerk Jäger GmbH
Apr 11, 2022
It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind.
reviewer1822314 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure and Networks at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Mar 29, 2022
We struggle a little with capacity management with the StarWind Hyperconverged appliance.
reviewer1823316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Kanal 75
Mar 28, 2022
The web-managed interface (a separate VM) could be better.