We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"vSAN Health is a feature designed to monitor the health and performance of the vSAN environment. It's crucial for us and our customers to frequently check on this to ensure everything is operating smoothly."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"What I would like to see, for the really small customers, is the ability to have two nodes."
"We are facing some problems with updates with the VMware vSAN. When we upgraded from version 6.5 to 7, we have been faced with many problems. They have been deploying many hotfixes for this version, and they need to continue to improve this version."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"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"
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
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StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN, 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 Tape Library vs. VMware vSAN report.
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