We performed a comparison between StorMagic SvSAN 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."It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"They offer top-tier support."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"All orchestration and monitoring are routed to the cloud."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"While we haven't made major changes to our disaster recovery and business continuity processes yet, moving towards stretch vSAN across sites will simplify and expedite our DR processes in the future."
"It is more stable now than it was before. It's not like it was in the first year. Now it is stable, and we trust it more."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"The ability to have an HA cluster in the absence of a shared storage device or SAN."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"I would have liked it to have been more scalable. It's scalable but not as much as, for example, the ScaleIO systems were or the Kaminario"
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 13th in HCI with 9 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, LINBIT SDS, Veeam Backup & Replication and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell Unity XT. See our StorMagic SvSAN vs. VMware vSAN report.
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