HyperConverged Appliance: Datasheet

StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA) is a turnkey private and hybrid cloud building block designed to provide exceptional application uptime with limited IT resources and budgets.

Reduce your IT infrastructure costs and complexity by superseding your legacy combination of servers and storage (NAS or SAN) with a highly efficient and easily scalable virtualization platform.

StarWind HCI Appliance unites compute, storage, networking, hypervisor, and vSAN within a tiny 2-node HCI cluster. All components are best-of-breed, hand-picked, and tightly integrated into a bespoke configuration made to bring the optimal price-quality option for a given StarWind HCA customer.

StarWind HCA includes ProActive Premium Support with health monitoring, machine learning failure prediction, and automated remote troubleshooting for flawless 24/7 operation. ProActive Support will “babysit” your IT environment round-the-clock, resulting in 98% of issues being resolved without customer intervention.

Each StarWind HCA is tailored to customer requirements. ProActive Support, Assisted Migration, and Guided Commissioning are included at no additional cost.

Easy Management

StarWind Command Center brings true single-pane-of-glass management and monitoring experience to HCA. We consolidated sophisticated dashboards that cover all the important information about the state of each environment component into a single screen. Imagine having just 1 browser tab to perform 20% of your IT-related routines that would otherwise take 80% of your time.

Available Configurations

StarWind Engineers will help you choose the most suitable available pre-sized specification or size an individual one made just for your requirements. Simple and transparent architecture alongside partnerships with hardware vendors assure an SMB-proof, reasonable price.

Performance Flash

StarWind Performance Flash Appliance is designed for small and mid-size SMB virtualized environments. All-flash storage with Intel® OPTANE™ powered hot tier configuration provides the very best performance. Also, you can scale up by adding more storage, memory, and interface cards. Clusters can also have mixed node configurations to adapt multiple workload requirements. With StarWind ProActive Premium Support included with the appliance, the responsibility for health status monitoring and availability of your applications is covered by StarWind intelligent monitoring service and a team of professional support engineers.

*Chassis Configuration and Scale-Up Support may vary
**Approximate capacity
***Read more about StarWind ProActive Premium Support here

Switchless scale-out options are available for certain models. For additional details please contact your sales manager.
Available hardware options are Supermicro and Dell OEM. Other OEM options available on demand.

Capacity Flash

StarWind Capacity Flash Appliance utilizes Intel® OPTANE™ powered hot tier to handle performance-intensive workloads in a cost-efficient manner. It provides an excellent balance between performance and cost. These models are built to deliver high storage capacity and great performance. Also, you can scale up by adding more storage, memory, and interface cards. Clusters can also have mixed node configurations to adapt multiple workload requirements. With StarWind ProActive Premium Support included with the appliance, the responsibility for health status monitoring and availability of your applications is covered by StarWind intelligent monitoring service and a team of professional support engineers.

*Chassis Configuration and Scale-Up Support may vary
**Approximate capacity
***Read more about StarWind ProActive Premium Support here

Switchless scale-out options are available for certain models. For additional details please contact your sales manager.
Available hardware options are Supermicro and Dell OEM. Other OEM options available on demand.

Value Flash

StarWind Value Flash Appliance is an option for low-footprint IT infrastructures. These models are built to provide a balance between performance and cost-efficiency for several VMs and low storage requirements. Also, you can scale up by adding more storage, memory, and interface cards. Clusters can also have mixed node configurations to adapt multiple workload requirements. With StarWind ProActive Premium Support included with the appliance, the responsibility for health status monitoring and availability of your applications is covered by StarWind intelligent monitoring service and a team of professional support engineers.

*Chassis Configuration and Scale-Up Support may vary
**Approximate capacity
***Read more about StarWind ProActive Premium Support here

Switchless scale-out options are available for certain models. For additional details please contact your sales manager.
Available hardware options are Supermicro and Dell OEM. Other OEM options available on demand.

Supported Hypervisors: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2, 2016, 2019, 2022; VMware vSphere 6.5, 6.7, 7.0; KVM (coming soon)
Supported Container Platforms: Docker, Kubernetes
Supported IaaS Platforms: OVH vCloud Air
Supported Storage Protocols: iSCSI, iSER, SMB3, SMB Direct, NFSv4.1, NVMe-oF
Supported Storage Management & Integrations: SMI-S, VVols, Redfish™, Swordfish™
Recommended Switches: Mellanox MSN2100, MSN2010, Dell S4810
Virtual Machine Backup and Replication: Veeam® Backup and Replication™ V10 and V11
Monitoring, Reporting and Capacity Planning: Veeam® ONE™ V10 and V11
Management and Security: StarWind Command Center, StarWind ProActive Services*
Optional Components: Microsoft SCVMM, Windows Admin Center; VMware vSphere Operations Management

*ProActive services are available in specific countries. Please contact your account manager or distributor for more details.

System configurations presented in this document are for reference only. For exact system configuration please inquire with your Account Manager.