We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"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 solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"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."
"It has automated a lot of workloads. It has automated us from ticketing a large number to a very small number."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"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."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."
"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
"I would like to see the implementation process improved."
"They could improve the packaging."
"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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