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."The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"First and foremost, I would advise people to purchase this solution mainly for the simplicity of the system. And it's all managed in one place, which is nice compared to Nutanix where you had to administrate multiple places. And, the support now is so good."
"The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution."
"I would recommend VxRail, it works for most of the use cases."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"The solution is really stable."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"The solution is easy to use. When turning on a server or a machine that is required for, deployment or quality assurance, the dynamic deployment of resources is good."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"We have some issues, but they are possibly out-of-the-box issues. There was a host that was dead on arrival, and there were some file issues on other hosts. We're currently working actively with Dell to resolve all these issues. Once they are resolved, the product should be stable."
"One area of the product that could be improved is the support."
"I wish for the performance environment to be improved."
"I would love to see license migration from one host to another."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"We do not use the storage part of VxRail, we use Pure Storage to map out the VxRail because the disk performance from Pure Storage was far better than the performance of the disk on the inside of VxRail."
"VxRail could improve by having domain protection."
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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