StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

“StarWind ended as the best overall solution, feature-wise and price-performance value. Out-of-the-box product worked as specified by the vendor“

Robert Ivanusa, Director of IT

“The use of StarWind VSAN doesn’t have to be strictly in the IT domain. Its use in the environment of technical security systems allows to ensure the continuity of the technical protection functioning, which leads to better company security.“

Kamil Laskowski, IT Administrator

“StarWind products have been very reliable and we will continue to look for opportunities to leverage their products and services.“

Leroy Manville, Vice President of Professional Services

“Thanks to StarWind we could re-use IT resources without buying any additional devices or servers. It simplified the whole infrastructure, made backup easier and services more reliable. StarWind saved lots of money for the charity.“

Patryk Kwiecien, IT Manager

“The resulting infrastructure with a StarWind product has exceeded our expectations in terms of performance and reliability.“

Khurram Khwaja, Company’s Representative

“StarWind was the first system I found that gave me hope. Now we have a redundant storage system, so our cluster system is fully fault-tolerant.“

Grzegorz Magierski, Owner

“We needed redundancy to allow for expansion, upgrades, and DR. We have them now! The support is exceptional, the product is stable, and the pricing fits our budget.“

Tom Francis, IT Director

“The UI is great and works from any member machine or connected machine. I plan to continue using a StarWind solution and recommending it to my clients.“

Christian Shaheen, Owner

“StarWind is best for price/performance solution. We are planning to use StarWind everywhere as possible.“

Technical account manager

“StarWind reduced cost and complexity while improving performance and reliability. It has been a great experience so far.“

David Roberge, Company’s representative

“StarWind VSAN works great and meets all our needs.“

Todd Stephan, IT Manager

“Nothing was as reliable as StarWind that tested. It allowed us to create an HA virtual server environment within our budget and met our goals.“

Zach M., Systems Administrator

“With little investment, we now have an IT structure with failover for hypervisors and data structure. VSAN is really fast and reliable. Couldn’t ask for more!“

Jonathan Beaudry, IT Manager

“The StarWind product has been wonderful and rock-solid stable. We are so impressed with this product that it will continue to be used in our environment for the foreseeable future.“

Bob Kennedy, Company Representative

“To get everything I required, StarWind was the best bang for the buck. It allowed us to use our existing hardware to build the required cluster, which is still running to date“

Mervyn Sheppard, ICT Manager

“StarWind VSAN creates a highly available environment with just a two-node setup. Similar solutions usually require three nodes minimum. We didn’t need to test other options.“

Mart Vernik, IT Administrator

“StarWind provides the IOPS we need, reduces the need for added hardware (SANs) and it just works!“

Joseph Havlat, IT Director

“StarWind provided scaling up over the existing environment, and it all works as required with less downtime in case of maintenance.“

Kittipat Saengkaenpetch, Administrator

“StarWind delivered us a complete solution that works out of the box. We successfully migrated to a virtualized environment, storage performance was increased, and now we have a redundant fail-tolerant infrastructure. We received everything we needed to get up and running.“

Tomasz Raś, IT administrator

“StarWind seems to be the most professional software out there and it comes with a lot of documentation and community support.“

Alexandru Luca, IT Manager

“The solution from StarWind is much more powerful than the previous. The whole system is running great, and the data transfer rates are excellent.“

Martin Wilke, company’s representative

"StarWind satisfies all the requirements."

Adrian Nicsan, IT manager

“StarWind allowed us to configure our storage locally on each server and in any configuration that suited us. Its software keeps both servers of the cluster in complete synchronization“

Ted Feddema, IT Manager

“It was going to cost us over $40,000 to upgrade our existing SAN just to get a slight improvement. With StarWind, I spent less than that for an entire SAN (Servers, Storage & StarWind).“

Branden Beachy, Network Administrator

“StarWind’s price was in our budget and the product fit the business requirements.“

Chaz Hill, Company representative

“We tested StarWind for a few months and it worked great in our test environment. We were able to extend the life of our direct-attached storage equipment.“

Mel Cook, CTO

“Without a doubt, this was the perfect solution for our school. Based on my experience so far, our relationship with StarWind will be long term.“

Ryan Madden, IT Operations Manager

“We deployed the 2-node StarWind appliance about 12 months ago. It has been very reliable, we have had zero downtime so far and working very well.“

Ho-Ching Yung, IT Director

“StarWind made the most sense in terms of lower cost and not having to do a big hardware repurchase.“

Richard Papp, IT Consultant

“We tried, tested, researched, and priced 4 other Hyperconverged and clustering solutions and StarWind’s features and pricing stood out as the best option for our company’s needs.“

Jason Urban, IT Infrastructure Manager

“StarWind offered the best of several worlds: improved performance, lower cost, and increased redundancy and failover capabilities.“

Brad Luhta, Director of Information Technology

“StarWind made it easy to get features such as replication in HA cluster environment that helps with the redundancy.“

Khurram Mohammad, company’s representative

“StarWind is exactly what we hope to get when we work with an IT company.“

Dave Baker, company’s representative

“StarWind is the best storage product I have ever used! It satisfies and exceeds requirements.“

Joe Gursky, Director of IT

“StarWind allowed us to introduce a SAN quickly and easily and gave us a full Hyper-V cluster with redundancy far greater than our previous setup.“

Andrew Taylor, ICT Operations Manager

“StarWind appeared to be the hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions that meet our budget and able to work with the existing hardware without significant changes.“

Edrissa Jarju, IT manager

“We have used StarWind in-house at our Data Center for 5-10 years. Our resulting infrastructure has performed great.“

Jeff Hamm, President

“We have tried a number of solutions. StarWind has great support, good performance, and is inexpensive.“

Daniel P., Company’s Representative

“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.“

Mahmood Elahi, Group Manager IT

“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.“

Ben Poole, Divisional IT Manager

“StarWind HCA is easy in deployment, cost-effective, has a single console of management with GUI.“

Mr. Linh, the company’s representative

“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.“

Kevin Sipma, Founder & CTO

“The ROI in our North American data center is under 12 months and on course to generate savings of nearly $450,000 in 24 months.“

Matt Collier, Group Infrastructure Engineer

“StarWind was the most cost-effective, reliable solution we found based on independent research and feedback in several IT communities.“

Adam Lea, CEO

“Resilient storage. Ability to migrate across hosts. Fast disk speed. Thanks to StarWind, everything is working splendidly.“

Jeff Sabotin, IT Director

“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.“

Miran Munjas, System Administrator

“Without spending tons of money we turned our HP fibre channel SAN into an iSCSI SAN.“

Jason Liu, agency’s representative

“StarWind allows us to use our hardware vendor of choice to provide highly available storage.“

Mark Hadjar, IT Manager

“With StarWind we can perform maintenance on individual servers without service outages, we are very happy so far.“

Eugene Korsak, Network Specialist

“It is a good solution that had already made a name for itself.“

Titus Chiu, Sr. Systems Engineer

“StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers an extra layer of protection and peace of mind. I highly recommend StarWind to anyone that manages a virtualized infrastructure.“

Patrick Lu, IT Manager

“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.“

Lukasz Zasko, VMware Administrator

“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.“

Richard Goward, IT Administrator

“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.“

Tracie Kline, System Administrator

“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.“

John Marta, Company’s Representative

“The resulting infrastructure is currently satisfying our plans because we were able to implement a reliable StarWind solution within our infrastructure.“

Byron K. Wallace, M&E IT System Admin

“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.“

David Gardner, Information Systems Manager

“StarWind provided reliable and affordable storage. Whenever we need highly available storage we will certainly consider the use of StarWind.“

Jan Demuynck, Company’s Representative

“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.“

Ryan Fulton, Company’s Representative

“We are satisfied with StarWind. The support is really fantastic. Whenever any issue arises, the response is very prompt, and solution is immediate.“

Srinivas Kouda, Company’s Representative

“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.“

Arthur Daboula Bienvenu, Director

“StarWind turned out to be a wonderful recommendation, as it saved money and it just works! I have 100% confidence in the product.“

Matt Bilderback, IT Coordinator

“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.“

Christopher Vlach, Systems Manager

“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.“

Matthew Henson, the Founder

“We were able to build a fully redundant replicating all flash SAN in a day on a working production system with zero downtime!“

Patrick Louis-Jean, IT Manager

“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.“

Florefe M. Patricio, Company’s Representative

“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.“

Jason Earle, IT Systems Administrator

“StarWind offers clustered storage and failover with just two nodes. This met our budget constraints without sacrificing performance.“

Rummy Dabgotra, company’s representative

“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

“StarWind deployment is a very good investment. It resulted in very high performance and high availability.“

Tom Rogers, System Administrator

“StarWind has provided us with better management and visibility without changing the existing backup infrastructure.“

Jammy Cheng, a company representative

“I’m very satisfied with StarWind. Better performance, much simpler to maintain. Better price to performance ratio.“

Dan Reynolds, Senior Systems Administrator

“The infrastructure has been working extremely well and has definitely satisfied the requirements.“

Christopher Epp, IT Admin

“The infrastructure with StarWind works perfect and satisfies all the requirements.“

Gerard Juárez, CEO

“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.“

Nathan Hess, Director of IT

“Now, I have a highly available environment, with reduced costs, and ultimate flexibility to align my environment to changing business needs.“

Elvis Palombizio, IT Manager

“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.“

Jerry Gode, Senior Associate

“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.“

Barry Miles, IT Manager

“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.“

Jeremy Moffitt, Network Administrator

“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.“

Aaron Hayes, IT Manager

“StarWind improved troubleshooting, the way of control and support.“

Ciprian Visa, System Administrator, Visma

“StarWind has been an outstanding solution that drastically increased our cloud availability and improved disk I/O.“

Jim Crawford, Data Center Manager, Cantey Tech Consulting

“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.“

Ryan Kulp, Technical Services Manager

“StarWind has a number of advantages over other products. I’ve used StarWind earlier and it never failed.“

Vasily Gudimovich, International Consultant, National Agency of Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

“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.“

Brian Witherow, IT Director

“Migrating was very easy, and everything is running faster and more reliable.“

Neal Wagoner, Technology Technician

“StarWind vSAN checked all of our needs while eliminating the undesirable realities of alternative SAN storage.“

Matt Bhame, IT Manager, Robertson Loia Roof

“Support has been great. All of the reps I have spoken to have been very nice and informative, and always follow up. The setup was a breeze.“

Alex Hernandez, a company representative

“StarWind HyperConverged Appliance delivered a solid hyperconverged platform and met all requirements including IOPS.“

Mike Leonard, CEO

“So far, everything has been solid.“

Jeff Ward, Sr. Systems Administrator, Garland Power & Light.

“StarWind was my first choice and ended up being my last choice. I have zero regrets.“

Bryan Schuler, Network Administrator

“Yes, it has been 100% reliable. We have never had a server go down since installation.“

Jeff Monian, a company representative

“It works very well. We have less equipment. Less points of failure. Less cooling. It is more economical and environmentally friendly.“

Doug Dahlberg, Director of IT Operations

“The resulting infrastructure has worked very well since deployment. All requirements were satisfied.“

Arthur Musaelian, a company representative

“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.“

Christopher Tuttle, IT Manager

“StarWind support is VERY knowledgeable and helpful. Fast response and setup was a breeze.“

Jeffrey Bowers, company’s representative

“The infrastructure was easy to install. Support has been excellent and thorough.“

Andrew Wolf, IT manager.

“Everything works great with all requirements satisfied. Technical support is very responsive and knowledgeable.“

Tyler Funk, Senior IT Systems Engineer.

“It is very cost-effective, and the feature-set meets the demands of our infrastructure at the moment.“

Kyle Aschenberg, a company representative.

“StarWind HCA has dramatically increased system uptime in addition to allowing IT to build out server infrastructure as the businesses grow rapidly.“

Aaron Stoddard, IT Director

“StarWind is worth a look. It provides the redundancy we have been looking for, in the budgeted amount.“

Tim McCart, Company representative

“StarWind Virtual SAN makes it easier to host virtual machines.“

Martin Andersen, co-founder and manager, SkoleIT.

“It was very easy to get started with StarWind and get our SAN setup quickly. Support was responsive and the documentation they provided was helpful.”

Carlton Whitmore, IT Manager

“AAA9’s virtual server structure now has the capability that it didn’t before with standalone hosts.”

Justin Graves, company representative.

“StarWind has been an outstanding solution that drastically reduced our SAN disk failures and improved disk I/O.”

Robin Kirmeier, Senior Network Engineer.

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.

StarWind cut the cost of our physical automation system by at least 50% being virtualized

Tony Abfalter, Director of Engineering/IT, Leighton Broadcasting

It's superfast and super reliable, exceeding all set requirements. Running now for the third year 354/24/7 with zero downtime.

Adonis Eliades, ICT Manager

With StarWind Virtual SAN, we have obtained a very powerful and scalable DR solution with high availability.

Genaro Tur Calatayud, the organization’s representative

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.

Nick Wallace, IT Director, Griffco Partners, Inc

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.

Adam Grill, Network Systems Manager, EC2 IT

StarWind is robust, willing to work with us and had faster response than other companies.

John Oates, Sears Home and Franchise

StarWind VSAN has done us well and I would certainly recommend it in my future career.

Steve Mills, Systems Administrator, Coram Showers

StarWind VSAN covers the customers need in terms of storage based cluster high availability in Azure

Jean-Baptiste Emeriau, Leader technique virtualization / cloud, P-Seller CoreIO

What we found especially valuable about StarWind is that it provided us with fault-tolerant software-based high performance storage pool.

Gerard de Bresser, Owner, WerkplekCloud.nl

StarWind worked well since it went into production and the whole configuration leaves room for the planned future expansion and adjustments.

A.F. Pul, Application-/Systems Engineer, BBK B.V

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.

Guglielmo Mengora, Founder and CEO of Netcore

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.

Dmitry Hmelevskoy

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.

Paul Harmon, Server & Network Administrator

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.

Justin Dover, Director of Technology

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.

Frank Schwarz, IT Administrator, KIT / IMK-AAF

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

StarWind's solution is simple, scalable and reliable. I love how it works with VMware and really important for me, it's affordable.

David Weisbrod, Founder, Macro Systems, Inc.

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.

Shayne Zaba, NICS Ltd. Director

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.

Galina Bondarenko, President, Proxen

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

With StarWind, cost savings evolve in various forms, including hardware, space, energy, and administration efficiency.

Jason Liu, System Administrator at Semel Institute

Tudor Rose Management deploys an efficient StarWind-based converged IT infrastructure to meet growing workload demands.

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.

Aitor Ibarra, Director, Vmhotel

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.

Neal Coffey, VoicePulse System Administrator