We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The price was right."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Data management and recovery processes are the most valuable features."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"The most valuable features of vSAN are its simplicity to deploy and that we can use commodity disks in our servers without complexity or need for external storage arrays or storage specialists on our teams."
"The most valuable features are secure IOPs and LAN security."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It's stable and scalable. Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer."
"The most valuable feature is fhe flexibility, the ability to move the machines around without hesitation."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"I would like to be able to limit IOPS."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"Pricing is something of a concern."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"The customer service is good but there is a cost for it. It does not come free."
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VMware vSAN report.
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