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 install itself is easy as pie."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"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."
"I like vSAN because they release features incrementally, every year, and you don't have to upgrade your hardware to get those features. If you bought a traditional SAN, you would have to upgrade your hardware constantly, every three years: You would get it, and it is how it is for three years. But on vSAN, you upgrade when you have to, when your hardware gets old or when you need more capacity. It's great, you get new features constantly."
"The technical support is good."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"The performance has exceeded our expectations and exceeded our traditional converged infrastructure."
"It's stable and scalable. Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer."
"All the features are working great."
"I like the scalability and the fact that it reduces your total cost for storage over several years."
"The most valuable feature is fhe flexibility, the ability to move the machines around without hesitation."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"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."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
"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 platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 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 Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, 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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