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The Best
Hyperconverged (HCI) Appliance
for Enterprise ROBO, SMB & Edge

StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA) is a modern data center building block. StarWind converges compute, storage, networking, virtualization software, and management into a single hyperconverged platform. It replaces tangled and expensive legacy data center infrastructure consisting of servers, segregated compute and storage networks, and network storage. StarWind HCI Appliance eliminates common obstacles associated with legacy infrastructure: high acquisition and maintenance costs, complicated management, and poor power efficiency.

The simplest way to assemble hyperconvergence. Ever wished building your IT infrastructure could be as easy as
snapping together Lego® blocks?

Lego® for system administrators

Lego® for system administrators

StarWind HCI Appliance is Lego® for system administrators. We provide you with a set of building blocks, some detailed instructions, and we’re ready to give a hand any time. You only need to use your imagination and creativity to create a data center of your own. Rest assured, it’s as easy as building a Lego® set. Last but not least, you will need to bring some cash. A very reasonable amount.

Don’t believe how easy it could be? Our team of experienced engineers is ready to answer your questions and introduce you to hardware specifications, features, and support plans.

Be brave: book a StarWind HCI Appliance demo now.

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Models

Each StarWind HCI Appliance includes a cost-effective minimum of two cluster nodes*, making it especially relevant for Enterprise ROBO and SMB customers. StarWind clusters can be easily scaled if needed. Models are available in three distinct lines, each tailored to meet specific requirements: compute and storage performance, capacity, and budget.

Value Flash
(V-Spec) Ideal for both Enterprise ROBO and small-scale SMB deployments with low VM count and low IOPS.
Capacity Flash
(C-Spec) Ideal balance of capacity and performance for environments with higher VM density, demanding greater storage capacity and IOPS. We think about SMB here.
Performance Flash (P-Spec) Delivers maximum performance and utilizes long-lasting flash to handle data-intensive applications and services effortlessly. It’s the top choice for enterprises and SMBs ‘on steroids.’
Form factor 1U 2U 1U or 2U
Virtualization platforms VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Single or Dual Xeon 4th/5th Generation Scalable Processors
RAM Up to 4096 GB, DDR5 ECC RAM
Raw capacity Up to 75 TB Up to 170 TB Up to 170 TB
Networking 1 x 2, 4-port NIC 10, 25 GbE 1 x 2, 4-port NIC 10, 25 GbE, Up to 2 x additional NICs 10, 25, 100, 200 GbE 1 x 2, 4-port NIC 10, 25 GbE, Up to 2 x additional NICs 10, 25, 100, 200 GbE

* Technical specifications are indicated per cluster node (each cluster requires a minimum of two cluster nodes for high availability).

Value Flash (V-Spec) Ideal for both Enterprise ROBO and small-scale SMB deployments with low VM count and low IOPS.
Form factor 1U
Virtualization platforms VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Single or Dual Xeon 4th/5th Generation Scalable Processors
RAM Up to 4096 GB, DDR5 ECC RAM
Raw capacity Up to 75 TB
Networking 1 x 2, 4-port NIC 10, 25 GbE
Capacity Flash (C-Spec) Ideal balance of capacity and performance for environments with higher VM density, demanding greater storage capacity and IOPS. We think about SMB here.
Form factor 2U
Virtualization platforms VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Single or Dual Xeon 4th/5th Generation Scalable Processors
RAM Up to 4096 GB, DDR5 ECC RAM
Raw capacity Up to 170 TB
Networking 1 x 2, 4-port NIC 10, 25 GbE, Up to 2 x additional NICs 10, 25, 100, 200 GbE
Performance Flash (P-Spec) Delivers maximum performance and utilizes long-lasting flash to handle data-intensive applications and services effortlessly. It’s the top choice for enterprises and SMBs ‘on steroids.’
Form factor 1U or 2U
Virtualization platforms VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Single or Dual Xeon 4th/5th Generation Scalable Processors
RAM Up to 4096 GB, DDR5 ECC RAM
Raw capacity Up to 170 TB
Networking 1 x 2, 4-port NIC 10, 25 GbE, Up to 2 x additional NICs 10, 25, 100, 200 GbE

Want the full list of specifications and features? Download StarWind HCI Appliance datasheet for an in-depth look. Didn’t find the exact specs you need or want pricing details? No worries, our Sales Engineering Team is here to help you analyze your current workload, determine the necessary sizing, and customize the StarWind HCI Appliance to fit your specific requirements perfectly. Don’t hesitate, request your StarWind HCI Appliance quote now!

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Want to build your ideal HCI with your own servers? No need to buy our hardware — unlock all the features of
StarWind HCI Appliance with your own setup!

Virtual HCI Appliance

You can enjoy all the benefits of StarWind hyperconverged appliance without investing into the proprietary hardware from us. You may obtain the software, the exact set of components powering our virtualization platform, pre-packaged and ready to be installed on your own hardware.

Intrigued? Download your 30-day Virtual HCI Appliance trial and discover the ease and flexibility for yourself.

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Virtual HCI Appliance

Virtual HCI Appliance: From top-tier software components to cutting-edge features, we’re all about ease of use, performance and reliability.

What’s under the hood?

What’s under the hood?

A choice of the supported hypervisors (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or our own flavor of KVM), in-house developed storage virtualization software called StarWind Virtual SAN, pushing data over the proven iSCSI or cutting-edge NVMe-oF, with the help of RDMA technology (if available), an intuitive web management, an AI-powered sophisticated telemetry, and “call home” system.

Wait no more and schedule Virtual HCI Appliance demo now! Our sales engineers would be happy to help you to find out about full feature set, estimated performance you can expect from your hardware, limitations, and certain support restrictions applied to the virtual HCI appliance compared to the physical one.

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Virtual HCI Appliance Free

You can benefit from hyperconvergence, an already established technology that both accelerates the growth and drives costs down for tens of thousands of our customers worldwide. You can win without paying a penny!

Well, as long as you’re OK with running everything in a self-supported mode. Just give free Virtual HCI Appliance a shot!

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Virtual HCI Appliance Free

Virtual HCI Appliance: Free or Paid? Compare the free and commercial editions of StarWind Virtual HCI Appliance.
Explore the features and support options of each version to determine the best fit for your needs.

Benefits

We Take Care
25/8
We take care of you 25 hours a day
“Eight Days A Week” © The Beatles
Peace of Mind
100%
Uptime close to 100% 
Your uptime is our priority
Massive Cost Savings
You can reuse software licenses
You can Bring Your Own (BYO) hardware

Use cases

Business continuity for mission-critical applications

Modern enterprises rely heavily on critical business-specific applications, and service interruptions or downtime can lead to direct financial losses. To prevent this, fault-tolerant hardware and software are essential, including servers, storage, networking, and hypervisors. Historically, each component was acquired and installed separately, resulting in higher costs, increased complexity in support and management, and multiple potential points of failure.

StarWind HCI Appliance aggregates all the mentioned components into a single hyperconverged platform that can withstand multiple hardware and software failures without service interruption, enabling autonomous and unmanned operation.

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Enabling Remote and Branch Offices (ROBO) and Edge

As businesses become more global and their data more decentralized, a standardized and unified IT approach for remote offices, branch offices (ROBO), and edge locations is crucial. These locations need local processing power, and conventional IT methods have failed to deliver the required simplicity, manageability, and cost-effectiveness. StarWind HCI Appliance combines servers, storage, networking, hypervisors, and data movers into a minimalistic, scalable platform. It provides a complete, easily scalable, centrally managed infrastructure capable of powering diverse ROBO workloads. Designed for availability, StarWind minimizes application downtimes and business losses, enabling unmanned operation, essential for ROBO and edge environments.

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Businesses transitioning from physical desktops and workstations to VDI often end up with undersized or over-provisioned and over-licensed hardware, struggling to deliver the correct quantity of virtual desktops at the right quality of end-user experience. StarWind provides flexible, purpose-built, highly efficient, and fault-tolerant hyperconverged platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking, GPUs, hypervisors, and VDI components, all managed under a unified support framework. Each deployment is tailored to specific requirements, ensuring optimal IT infrastructure sizing and cost-effectiveness. StarWind adheres to the best practices of Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft, guaranteeing exceptional user experience, performance, and reliability.

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Geo-clustering and stretched-clustering

In today’s business landscape, companies distribute workloads across remote locations globally to deliver uninterrupted services. Traditional stretched and geo-clusters often use over-engineered and overprovisioned hardware and software, leading to complex failover processes, downtimes, management chaos, security issues, and idle resources. StarWind HCI Appliance offers stretched and geo-clustering support with prebuilt, preconfigured hardware platforms, ensuring scalability, cost-efficiency, and security compliance. With intuitive web management, AI-powered telemetry, and a “call home” system under a single support umbrella, StarWind HCI Appliance maintains business continuity, reduces costs, and operates unmanned, saving labor time and money.

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Features

Self-Healing
ZFS self-healing, AI-powered telemetry, and “call home” systems provide maximum reliability without customer intervention.
High Availability
StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured in a few minutes.
“Screaming” Performance
StarWind unlocks hardware potential. Minimum overhead means maximum performance.

Features

Self-Healing
ZFS self-healing, AI-powered telemetry, and “call home” systems provide maximum reliability without customer intervention.
High Availability
StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured in a few minutes.
“Screaming” Performance
StarWind unlocks hardware potential. Minimum overhead means maximum performance.

Reviews. Reviewed by opinion leaders

Success stories. 300+ featured from more than 63,800 customers

Srinivas Kouda
Company Representative
We are satisfied with StarWind. The support is really fantastic. Whenever any issue arises, the response is very prompt, and solution is immediate.
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John Oates
Infrastructure Manager
StarWind is robust, willing to work with us and had faster response than other companies.
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Vass Sandor
IT Infrastructure Leader
We were able to build 2-node storage clusters based on virtualization in 19 hypermarkets without any problems and with high cost-efficiency.
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Craig Prosser
Head of IT Infrastructure
StarWind technology provides a highly available storage cluster with minimal server requirements..
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The Bosch Security Systems
Company Representative
StarWind was used to provide redundancy on just 2 nodes, reduce the overall cost of high availability infrastructure, lower power consumption, and build a Hyper-V failover cluster without a hardware SAN.
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David Gardner
Information Systems Manager
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.
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Ryan Fulton
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.
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John Harris
Windows System Administrator
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 ...
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Željko Medić
Director of IT Department
Because of recommendations of older colleagues, with StarWind, we got a reliable storage with no additional hardware.
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Joe Gursky
Director of IT
StarWind is the best storage product I have ever used! It satisfies and exceeds requirements.
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Ciprian Visa
Company’s Representative
StarWind improved troubleshooting, the way of control and support.
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Jim Crawford
Data Center Manager
StarWind is an outstanding solution that drastically increased our cloud availability and improved disk I/O.
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