We performed a comparison between Springpath [EOL] and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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 ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"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"
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
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Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Springpath [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN.
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