StarWind Virtual SAN Pricing Overview

The need to consolidate and virtualize our IT systems and have them be highly redundant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been working with StarWind's vSAN product in several editions for some years now, and, although there have been pitfalls and some difficulties at one point, we are satisfied with the handling, performance and stability of it.

I have been firstly using StarWind vSAN for Hyper-V years ago during lab workshops in which there was a need for a small environment (2 nodes) with shared storage but no possibilities or budgets to buy dedicated storage hardware or expensive integrated solutions. At the time, I went through repurposing older server systems with mixed direct attached storage. One could say that this point was my introduction to the HCI paradigma. Operations here went very well since there are special guides I could follow from StarWind's knowledge base. Although not quite complying with the network requirements due to budget constraints, the performance, ease of setup and manageability delivered has been fine. The loads at this point have been container-based as well as virtualized (nested and non-nested) workloads. I was able to fulfill the I/O-requirements set to the lab environment.

Later in my career I returned to StarWind's vSAN, this time for a similar but slightly bigger and technologically more advanced hyperconverged testing environment focussing on virtualization which served as proof-of-concept for the company's plannings, IT modernization and customer demonstrations. Again with mixed storage, but this time with proper hardware backing it, it delivered performant, ergonomically manageable and fast second day testing operations. Also the experience o Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.