We performed a comparison between Red Hat Gluster Storage and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."It's very easy to upgrade storage."
"The technical support team is excellent."
"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"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."
"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"The performance of the solution must be improved."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StorPool.
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