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The sales side is knowledgeable about their products. The technical support side is outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some of the documentation could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Fantastic hyper-converged solution for SMB. The price point and pricing options allow for SMB deployment of a plug and play, scalable solution. Starwind allows for organizations with a small budget to deploy a modern, robust HCA solution. Organizations that have a need for remote office deployments can find a resilient solution with Starwind HCA as well.
The ability to scale by simply adding additional nodes to the stack provides a unique opportunity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Starwind Command Center single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V. I was disappointed to find there was no disclosure of VMware incompatibility so the single-pane management system was not available in a VMware environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We used this as a 3 node cluster setup for 2 reasons. Prevent downtime during hardware failure or upgrades and to allow to easily expand storage as needed. Customer support is amazing too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Starwind missed 2 features we wanted but did not require, which was encrtion and also deduplication. Another feature that would be nice later on is the avbility to handle high latency stretched DR so we dont need to use a 3rd part ysoftware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
StarWind Virtual SAN works best with hypervisor environment. We get rid of our organization storage issue with this product. The backup and restoration of data also becomes easy with StarWind Virtual SAN. Overall cost of the solution is effective because there is no need to have extra physical servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
StarWind Virtual SAN should improve their reporting they only have builtin reports in their solution it should have option to customize some required reports for senior management.
The documentation for troubleshooting known issues of the product is also limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Hands down, the best thing about StarWind has gotta be their support... They were able to connect remotely to my server, and were able to walk me thru the sometimes complicated sets of instructions that I had needed- including when we accidentally deleted one of our VMs and needed to recover it! For a production environment, this is critical support and a display of technical know-how that I have rarely ever witnessed or have participated in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My single complaint is that I wish that there were more training videos online, either on their website, or youtube or wherever that would train IT Managers with best practices and maybe highlight what others are doing with their solutions and environments. New ideas and new insight is how we can crawl out of our own personalized thoughts and "group thinking" that sometimes do not allow us to have the advantage because the thoughts have never been presented to us! So training and maybe monthly webinars would be an incredible tool to help people- in ways that they never even knew they needed! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Performance of StarWind Virtual SAN is fast and effective. Reporting templates and customization have a very intense impact on senior management. Backup is readily available for use and restoration process is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is petty complex for those engineers who are new with the product. It does not have strong local support partner in my country. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
StarWind vSAN allows me to build HA Hyper-V cluster on just two nodes, saving as much as 30% on hardware(with other solutions you need at least 3 nodes for truly fault-tolerant cluster). It also offers 30-day free evaluation period which you can extend longer to trial the product before signing the contract. Support is first very professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some of its documentation was a bit confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
