We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and VxRail 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."StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"The solution has simplified our operations."
"The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"The stability of VxRail is good, we have not had any issues."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"We are very happy with the purchase, and it works well. It is fast. We went with the full-flash version, meaning that we have SSDs. So, we can build a Windows virtual machine in two minutes. We were surprised when we first tried to do that."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the storage is integrated with the VxRail so I don't have to go in between systems when I have to monitor my storage."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"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."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"My main issue so far is that the installation created a default datacenter name of "Marvin" and it cannot be changed."
"The licensing needs to be improved upon."
"The implementation of a VxRail, it's straightforward, but the ongoing utilization, and integration, are where it can start to become difficult if you're not used to doing it."
"When we have a vulnerability or we need to upgrade VxRail, it takes a long time. It takes eight hours each time we upgrade."
"The only issue which is every now and again is that when you log in it will tell you that there's an issue with VxRail when there actually isn't. All that's required is a refresh or reload. The solution itself works but you may get some bad reports every now and again. Probably once every couple of months; there is no effect to the solution's capabilities."
"At present, VxRail is a hyperconverged state of the art product being installed in a legacy way. We need hyperconverged install teams."
"In the next release, maybe they could add in integration with the hyper-cloud so it will be easier to do the movement up and back to the cloud in order to scale in and scale out."
"We would like to see integrating with Nutanix. Currently, we are working on integrating the two to see if there is any value in doing so."
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VxRail report.
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