We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StorMagic SvSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"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."
"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."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Ease of deployment"
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"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."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"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."
"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."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"The documentation could be better."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"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."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"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."
"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"
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, LINBIT SDS and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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