We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and StorPool 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."StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"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."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The documentation could be better."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
Earn 20 points
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews while StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS and DataCore SANsymphony. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. StorPool report.
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