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."I save both physical and virtual space."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"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.""
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"Everyone uses virtualization to more efficiently utilize hardware resources. That's the main point of vSAN and VMware."
"It uncoupled the idea of proprietary technology and component capabilities. It is basically a proprietary technology for a cost-effective infrastructure."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"This is a great product."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
"On the DevOps side, if there could be more automation it would be more helpful."
"Only the stretched cluster requires a minor improvement."
"The customer service is good but there is a cost for it. It does not come free."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"There is room for improvement in vSAN's ability to debug. When it's not working well, debugging becomes quite challenging. Identifying issues when it's lagging or not functioning properly can be difficult."
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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