We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."
"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"The multi-vertical aspect is what is most valuable for us. The main reason we wanted a multi protocol was because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data as we could get from Linux and Windows lengths. That was our value proposition for this solution."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."
"The networking needs improvement."
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
"I'm not a fan of how they don't log you out properly from some of their web tools for management."
"I would like to see the implementation process improved."
"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
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NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony.
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