“Price + Simplicity. StarWind VSAN offers great pricing and allows us to get work done without expensive
custom hardware. It also makes getting back online quick and easy after an outage or hardware failure.“
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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
StarWind HCA is a 100% software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure designed to minimize applications downtime for companies with limited IT team resources and budgets.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance ensures constant uptime thanks to synchronous failover clustering between on-premises and public cloud and ability of a 2-node system to withstand 1 node + 1 disk failure. Customers spend zero time on fixing issues since HCA comes with StarWind ProActive Premium Support included by default to prevent the breaks. StarWind HCA brings configuration, migration, and integration efforts to minimum since everything is done by StarWind engineers at no additional cost. All that – with a price 2x lower than a Tesla Model 3 for a 2-node system.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is an off-the-shelf virtualization solution built from high-end components. With a single support umbrella approach, it is extremely simple to manage and requires minimal effort from IT operations. Moreover, you waste no time on monitoring troubleshooting process thanks to StarWind ProActive Premium Support that keeps eye on all cluster components 24/7 to predict failures and prevent downtime.
Low Cost
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is the most affordable offering available in the marketplace today. Thanks to intelligent design, less hardware is required resulting in the “sum of all the parts” cost benefit. Zero additional components are needed to scale the infrastructure, since StarWind Hybrid Cloud extends the existing on-premises environment to a cost-efficient public cloud of customer’s choice.
Performance and Features
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance unifies best of breed hardware and software to deliver enterprise-class performance without cost, risk or complexity. Proven vendors include servers from Dell, Flash from Intel, virtual shared storage from StarWind, Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere hypervisor and industry-leading VM backup and recovery from Veeam.
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“We have used StarWind in-house at our Data Center for 5-10 years. Our resulting infrastructure has performed great.“
“We tried other solutions and found the StarWind’s one easy to install and manage. Unlimited capacity license is also a very good feature. Resulting infrastructure has very good performance.“
“StarWind’s performance opportunities allowed us to focus on exactly what we needed instead of having to over-engineer and guess at our future infrastructure needs.“
“We wanted a solution that could allow us to back up to cheap cloud storage and StarWind’s VTL is the perfect
solution for this. StarWind will always be top-of-mind for us for future storage needs and solutions.“
“Because of management simplicity and overall lower costs, we went to StarWind. The results are better than expected; we have room to grow without compromising performance.“
“StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers an extra layer of protection and peace of mind. I highly recommend StarWind to anyone that manages a virtualized infrastructure.“
“StarWind VSAN can help utilize your old hardware and save more money. StarWind has the best support which includes installation assistance even you buy a basic level.“
“We now have a superior storage platform for our virtual environment. We can now take down individual hosts for maintenance without affecting any servers. We have complete support in place with StarWind.“
“Support for StarWind VTL is great! Even though it did take several days to resolve the issue they worked on the problem every day until it was resolved. StarWind allowed us to use our Backblaze account and keep all our backups in the same location.“
“By using StarWind software, the client was no longer a victim of failing physical infrastructure (power and cooling issues). They were able to keep operating their business, even when issues arose that were outside the control of technology.“
“The resulting infrastructure is currently satisfying our plans because we were able to implement a reliable StarWind solution within our infrastructure.“
“By being able to virtualize our environment with StarWind, we were able to retire some old hardware, get our services highly available, reduce power consumption and heat in our server closet.“
“StarWind got us off the clustered environment, which was a big help. So, I could regain control of my storage and reclaim and redistribute the space we desperately needed.“
“The current infrastructure with StarWind operates according to project expectations and meets the set objectives framework, providing a guarantee of storage redundancy in the event of a physical server problem.“
“With StarWind, every upgrade has been done in place seamlessly, and provides new features and simpler administration…exactly what our business needs! StarWind far exceeds our expectations and requirements.“
“We now have hyperconverged infrastructure that exactly fits what we wanted for extreme reliability and extreme uptime. This is perfect for a small company like us, as we can be much more nimble and responsive to our customers.“
“StarWind is turn-key virtualization solution available in the marketplace today. It allows multiple virtualization environments to interact with storage and form a working setup, providing virtually unlimited deployment scenarios.“
“Does StarWind satisfy all the requirements? Absolutely. It has been tested several times with power failures and server crashes and has successfully rolled over to the operating server to avoid any downtime.“
“We discovered that the “old infrastructure” was actually underutilized but being powerful – we upgraded the CPU, RAM and Storage and noticed that the “old” became new again.“
Richard Ojeleye, Senior Communications Technologist
“We have found StarWind VSAN to be a solid and reliable product with easy scalability which is extremely important with regards to Production Storage Area Networks.“
“StarWind plays well with Microsoft Servers and Hyper-V. With a pair of physical hosts, I can easily move my virtual machines between hosts for maintenance or failure. We could not do that before.“
“We opted for all SSD and found that performance was much better. We went from a full rack down to 4 units, so any troubleshooting should be much easier now with less equipment.“
“Our primary goal was 24×7 uptime with the possibility of doing maintenance without VM shutdown or migration in case of update or failure. StarWind has never let us down.“
“Price + Simplicity. StarWind VSAN offers great pricing and allows us to get work done without expensive custom hardware. It also makes getting back online quick and easy after an outage or hardware failure.“
“StarWind and Windows Failover provide IMS’s production environment with a much more efficient way of making sure that our end-users never hear “we are currently having system issues.“
Paulo Laranjeiro, Network Administrator, Intermodal Management Systems.
“StarWind’s VSAN product is extremely easy to use. POC was a breeze to setup, and the engineering assistance for production configuration gave me peace of mind that our new solution was deployed following the developers best practices.“
“We picked StarWind because it was very cost effective and proved to do a great job of backing up our systems. It’s been great at being able to back up our data to an offsite location.“
“The infrastructure works excellent.
We have been able to respond to shifting needs in the organization at greater speed and have experienced
zero downtime even during maintenance.“
If somebody is looking for an excellent software-defined storage solution that offers the potential for better TCO, efficiency and scalability to address exponential-data-growth needs, than StarWind is my choice #1
Marian Danisek, IT infrastructure & Operations Manager, Tajco Slovakia s.r.o.
We selected StarWind because it met all our requirements and was a good value for the price. We went with all flash in our StarWind storage solution and were able to greatly exceed our backup RPO because of the increased performace.
We chose StarWind mainly because of the cost compared to other vendors. Simplicity of setup was also a major factor and I like the fact that you don’t need a vendor certified engineer to perform the installation.
John Harris, Windows System Administrator, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Bosch VMS got Highly Available infrastructure, using StarWind Virtual SAN to build Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Cluster. Moreover, Bosch achieved redundancy and fault-tolerance of the security system with lowered power consumption and reduced implementation operational and capital expenses.
StarWind Virtual SAN software coupled with Mellanox Ethernet-based high speed end-toend infrastructure accelerates storage solution networking connectivity and lowers overall power consumption.
We are happy with the way StarWind is Performing and it currently meets all our requirements. We would not hesitate in recommending StarWind our clients.
The deployment provided increased performance with reduced costs and the same ease of management. We used to focus on stability and now we will give full attention to. We will definitely consider StarWind for future deployments, especially because of low hardware requirements and flexible configuration.
StarWind seemed the easiest and most straight-forward system to implement without tight storage limits for entry-level systems. We plan on continuing to host the ESXi servers datastores using StarWind Virtual SAN.
Nicholas Sharp, IT Manager, Alliance Engineering of Oregon
The stability has never been an issue, not even a single hiccup. This is a product I would highly recommend especially in the SMB market where budgets are always tighter and utilizing hardware for multiple purposes makes the management very happy.
Daniel Covell, IT Consultant of Anchor Brewing Company, Founder and President of The Covell Group LLC
Baker Tilly Ukraine was really impressed by StarWind from pricing, performance and ease-of-use perspectives. It was unequivocally the best choice of the six products that we evaluated.
The simplicity, reliability and performance are unmatched, especially when you consider that the pricing comes in less than the competitors. After one year in production service, we'd easily and readily recommend StarWind's software to any server admin looking for a robust and cost-effective SAN, without the single point of failure or proprietary operating system of a hardware solution.
One day I was talking to VEEAM support and they saw my processing rate was around 300 MB to a small 5 disk QNAP NAS. They said my storage speed on my host was really very good. Better than most numbers they usually see.
StarWind Virtual SAN is deployed in AIDA (Aerosol Interaction and Dynamics in the Atmosphere) research facility to ensure high availability of scientific data. The result is a total success with approximate uptime of 99.9986301% and just one hour a month downtime due to planned maintenance. StarWind Virtual SAN provided high performance and 24/7 data availability for scientists from every time zone to continue their research non-stop.
We strongly recommend StarWind solution. Since our initial deployment our storage needs have grown and the product has successfully grown with us. We have increased our storage exponentially without any complications. We can now perform maintenance on our storage cluster without creating an outage.
Michael J. Gage, Network Operations Manager, LocalTel Communications
This setup has been bullet-proof for the last 18 months and the performance was for the most part better than expected. We have been very impressed with Starwind Software and have deployed it in a variety of similar configurations successfully since this project.
We have tried different storage system solutions to obtain data synchronization and redundancy, but most of them didn't provide the real-time synching that we required. Then we tested StarWind, and even tried to "sabotage" it but it just kept working! StarWind meets all our needs and has taken a prominent place in our IT environment.
Sander van’t Hullenaar, IT Director, Nitroserve.nl
The whole process from evaluating the product and discussions with StarWind technical staff to final purchase was straightforward, helpful and in no way did I ever feel forced to purchasing the product. This is the first class product and company.
Robert Marshall, IT Systems Manager, Prior Pursglove College
Combining StarWind and Veeam is one of the best IT solutions that we have seen in years. We got affordable networked storage, increased application and data availability, protected our VMware infrastructure and were able to do all this for less than 25% of what we initially budgeted. No other solutions came even close to the product quality and cost which we got with StarWind and Veeam.
With the StarWind solution, Reseaunance obtained reliable SAN with advanced features. The StarWind storage solution offered security for our data. It can be scaled according to the company’s storage needs with promised zero downtime and fast disaster recovery. Data deduplication technology was exactly the thing we required, because it permits us to store a large amount of data without extending our existing storage.
Peter Tkatchenko, Director of Information Technology Department
Because of my investment in StarWind’s fantastic HA solution and Microsoft Hyper-V clustering & Live Migration, it was possible to physically move my servers from one datacenter to another without any interruption of service and without risking data.
Since we implemented StarWind iSCSI SAN, we have found it easy to deploy, update, and maintain a service that is highly available from end to end. We know that we are protected against unexpected failures, and that StarWind support is there for us if any difficulties arise.
