StarWind Virtual SAN Reviews & Product Details - Page 10

Ability to quickly scale up or scale down storage as needed. StarWind allows you to add two or more nodes to a cluster. Other vendors usually require a physical appliance upgrade or addition to add storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scaling up storage on an existing node is not straightforward and requires some configuration. If this process was better documented, it would be easier for customers to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been searching for Virtual SAN for a long time. When we found Virtual SAN from StarWind our problems were fixed, and easy PowerShell scripts were ready to edit and run for everyone, we are using it for GEO Failover Cluster and have been using it for a few months with no problem. Highly recommend it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Feature-wise we are not looking for anything more or less that comes with StarWind Virtual SAN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a simple solution, and it is not very difficult to implement, but I recommend using technical support to check everything before production. It is stable, and very reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation on the free tier could be better, but the community is very helpful, so this evens out the documentation I guess... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- easy to set up thank to detailed technical documentation

- realiable

- proffesional technical support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

we used StarWind Virtual SAN for more than three years and we didn't find anything that we dislike (connected with our use case - synchronous replication of high-availability fileservers) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It makes tasks such as sharing files, giving access and storing very simple and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing is a bit over the limit performance was worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have not had many issues with Starwind deployments since we started selling their products as part of a failover solution to one of our partner's overall systems. We sold a few systems, and till now there were no issues related to Starwind. We deployed across multiple brands of servers, (Dell, HP, QCT) and there were very ok with our myriads of server designs and configurations.

Most of the issues are about hardware failures, and once the hardware is replaced and the configuration restored, we initiated the sync, and the system was back running without issues.

One big plus I think it is important, especially compared to products from the likes of HPE Storvirtual VSA, etc, is that Starwind allows you to use 2 nodes only deployment without having to use a witness, meaning I will save cost as I do not need a separate VM / share to host the witness and Starwind will still work. Most of our deployments are either on one rack or 2 racks at a different location, and they do not have the options to allow us to deploy the 3rd location for a witness.

Easy to set up. There is a free version with 30 days of GUI usage that you can try on, but you can learn 80-90% of the product capability within these 30 days. With the paid product, the support is good. They can either let you go solo, and help to check on the settings later to advise on things to improve, or they can take over the setup completely.

Performance is adequate for our usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much. Slight improvements to the UI would do wonders, but it is more of nit-picking. Also licensing is by per TB for the lower end, although they give you 4TB from the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being a Windows-based virtual SAN device, the StarWind products fit in our network easily and provide a solid backbone for our data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have found no downsides to using the StarWind Virtual SAN products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think finding that StarWind Virtual SAN was essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customers unique requirements was the most valuable feature of StarWind vSAN. It is a pleasant change to encounter a company who are willing to be flexible over an implementation utilising their product and varying slightly from their normal design specifications. They also helped us qualify the product against the customer's constantly changing requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There was nothing in particular which I disliked about the product. Performance metrics and insight could be improved upon a little. It would also be good if there was some tighter vCenter integration, specifically around reporting functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to setup and configure. Create within a few minutes a SAN with a wide range of features. Supports iSCSI, NFS SMB and also most of the hypervisors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maybe the interface could be better from a UI perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Windows-based software environment allows a shared storage system to be set up at no cost, which also can be used productively usage with powershell is possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Software is very deep and complex and profound with many features. learning resources were pretty tough to find, but once you get there it is quite alright to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.