We performed a comparison between Springpath [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)."Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"It is extremely stable."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"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."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"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."
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Springpath [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. Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Springpath [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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