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 management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"It is scalable, overall. If you need to add storage, it makes it easy to scale by adding additional hard drives into the existing servers or you can add storage by just adding more servers."
"The product's initial setup phase was very straightforward."
"vSAN that has been most effective in streamlining storage operations. For data recovery alerts, it uses tools like snapshots and vMotion."
"The solution has high performance."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, and ease of management. If you compare it to other software-defined storage products, it's much easier. It's a checkbox. It's lot easier to manage."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It would be much improved if we could somehow integrate a better backup with it. Right now, we're using Veeam and it's okay, but I would like more of a VDP vSAN solution. That would be excellent. The VDP, at least the last time we looked at, it was just not quite there."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"It is an expensive solution."
"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."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 183 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 StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, 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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