We performed a comparison between ScaleIO [EOL] 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)."Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems"
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"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 Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
"Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
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ScaleIO [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. ScaleIO [EOL] is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of ScaleIO [EOL] writes "Meets our customers' needs but they should move towards high-level scaling". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". ScaleIO [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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