We performed a comparison between StarWind HyperConverged Appliance and StorMagic SvSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"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."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"It is extremely stable."
"The sales process is easy."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."
"Being able to upgrade machines and software during business operations just by switching nodes has been a huge improvement. We"
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"The easy way everything can be configured and ready to run in less than a day is great."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"They require more media visibility."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"The only critique I might have is that the support is overseas in Eastern Europe and, on occasion, there has been a language issue. But in general, they're as good as can be..."
"In the future, it would be nice to be able to migrate from the Windows vSAN to the Linux vSAN without having to do a full restore from backups."
"Multi cluster support for their Command Console would be very beneficial. Currently, you can only work with a single cluster at a time. The console is new so I expect much growth in this area in the near future. The other area that could be improved is the tech support locale."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"I honestly cannot think of anything else to be improved, as I rarely have to interact with the Starwind product."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual. See our StarWind HyperConverged Appliance vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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