We performed a comparison between Portworx Enterprise and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"The documentation could be better."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
Portworx Enterprise is ranked 2nd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 6 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and Robin Cloud Native Storage for Kubernetes, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Portworx Enterprise vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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