We performed a comparison between Springpath [EOL] and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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)."The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"This solution came preconfigured. All we needed to do was plug it in and move our VMs."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"Their support team is extremely helpful, and they are pretty friendly and knowledgeable."
"StarWind is very resilient and built off of quality vendor hardware."
"Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing."
"The biggest thing we were looking for was redundancy, with both the compute and the storage, so that way we could lose a full node and still keep everything up and running, and not have to worry about it... StarWind was able to provide a solution for what we wanted, - to provide for redundancy."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"The support is the most valuable feature. The support has been amazing. It's around the clock. One of our hard disks accidentally ejected without me knowing or being onsite. They called and told me about it before I had a chance to see it myself."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"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."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"Updates need improvement."
"Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
"The only thing my team has recommended improving on is possibly a StarWind-customized GUI to monitor the overall system health, similar to 5nine Manager."
"The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work."
"I would request that the terms and conditions be reviewed and made more acceptable to corporate security so that we could finally turn on the proactive support feature, as it is included with our support agreement."
"At the moment, the initial configuration is very technical and error-prone. That is the reason Starwind does it for you as a service, which is a great thing. But it would be nice if we could change or rearrange storage assignments ourselves."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
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Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Springpath [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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