We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and StorMagic SvSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"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."
"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."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"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 documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"This is a great product."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"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 can be better for the free tier."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"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."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"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."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"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"
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 14th in HCI with 9 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, Veeam Backup & Replication and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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