StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
StarWind HCA	Score9 out of 10	N/A	The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution designed to reduce application downtime on a reasonable budget.	N/A

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	StarWind HCA
Considered Both Products	StarWind Dominic Bolger Head of IT in Information Technology at C C Young & Co Ltd (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind HCA In terms of features its not quite were Nutanix is as the market leader, but It stacks up well against HPE SimpliVity and Azure Stack HCI. If you want to go down the Edge route and you are an MS shop then there is potential to still do this with StarWind HyperConverged … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Bowen IT Enterprise Engineer in Information Technology at Flagler County Schools (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose StarWind HCA As a school district, price is generally what it always comes down to for us. In this case with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), it is nice to not only find a very cost-effective solution but also one that still maintains a very high level of performance. We have been … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Weil Network System Administrator in Information Technology at weiconet GmbH (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind HCA Thanks to the finished hardware concept, the HCA is quickly ready for use and requires less configuration effort.The high speed and low failure rate are unbeatable in comparison to the virtual SAN.After a detailed examination, the costs balance each other out. In my opinion, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA Scale seemed like a good solution also. The problem from my side was how different the end result would be from our current environment. Scale uses it's own proprietary hypervisor, so no VMware. This would save on licenses but would require a new set of skills and possibly a … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Chapman Information Technology Director in Information Technology at Tryon International Equestrian Center (Hospitality, 201-500 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We looked at Scale Computing as another option that was more expensive. There may have been a couple more bells and whistles but for our organization and pricepoint, Starwind fit the bill. With Scale your needed three nodes and with StarWind only 2. Also, StarWind offered … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) offers a product that is comparable to other high-quality systems but at a much more attractive price. Other providers are not so transparent and want to sell hardware for an expensive service. You have to be active yourself and make … Incentivized Helpful? Mikel Reber IT Manager in Corporate at WESTERN IDAHO CABINETS INC (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind HCA Honestly using Starwind was our first jump into Clusterd services. We utilized standalone business grade hardware/software prior to moving to them. It was a great migration. Everything wen't smooth, support was great, the hardware is great, and performance is perfect. If you're … Incentivized Helpful? Nick Casagrande Director of Information Technology in Information Technology at Southern Waste Systems (Environmental Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose StarWind HCA VMware vSAN, nutanix Incentivized Helpful? Dan Reynolds Senior System Administrator in Information Technology at BLDD Architects (Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind HCA Because I was using StarWind VSAN previously I had no intention at looking at other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a complete different beast to storage solution such as Dell EqualLogic PS Series equipment as it allows for all storage to be housed locally to the processing server, having less kit to have to maintain in turn using less power and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarWind provided the best value for money against the other solutions we looked at, while providing all the functionality we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA Unfortunately, I haven't used any others but I am pretty happy with StarWind. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA Scale was a proprietary SAN software/hardware and outrageously high priced. The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance was just Dell servers with VMWare ESXi Hypervisor installed running two Windows Servers virtual machines where the StarWind SAN software is installed on. The only … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarWind is a major player in this space and competes at every level. The one place that shoots them to the top of my list is their AMAZING technical support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA Main reason for swapping away from VMware was cost. Our servers at the point of swapping away from VMware were already old so performance wasn't a consideration. We wanted to have something that Microsoft already provided so being able to leverage HyperV was a solid sell for us. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Struck DIrector of IT in Information Technology at Morrow County Auditor (Government Administration, 201-500 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We looked at some tradtional solutions from HP and Dell along with Nutanix. StarWind had the best solution and price overall. Incentivized Helpful? Carl Marshall Network Administrator in Information Technology at Winchester Utility Systems (Utilities, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind HCA I didn't spend a lot of time looking at other solutions. I did check out Dell's VxRail offerings, but didn't want to switch from Hyper-V to VMWare. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, as one is used as a general NAS type array, but we have had multiple drives out in our EMC product over the same course of life as the StawWind HCAs, which have had zero failures. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarWind HyperConverged Appliance was the only option that offered the performance, reliability, and high availability that we were looking for. It's also the solution that is tailored for small organizations and removes a lot of the complexities and extra components needed to … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Thacker Network & Information Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Kaonix Solutions Ltd (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We evaluated both of these systems and obtained quotes for comparison. Unfortunately both were way out of budget. StarWind however was well within budget! I have also used Nutanix, and the complexity of the management and the setup of the nodes is way more difficult to set up … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA The price, StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) had a much more attractive price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA They offer the same core functions as them but with a much better price and with the ability to supply hardware, "software" and support. Incentivized Helpful? Charles Marcus I.T. Director in Information Technology at MBI (Media Production, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind HCA In our simple two-host environment, StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) won out hands down in cost, and while I had no prior experience with the technology, I have been extremely pleased with the result. I wouldn't hesitate to go with them again in the future, although our … Incentivized Helpful? Brendan McEnnerney Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at Tryon International Equestrian Center (Entertainment, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind HCA I've never used a Scale appliance, but I've researched them and talked to their sales team and engineers. I decided to go with StarWind vs Scale largely because of price, but I also wanted to use Hyper-V and didn't really want to go with a proprietary hypervisor, which is what … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	StarWind HCA
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (61 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (4 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.7 (53 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (54 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.3 (2 ratings)