We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and Veritas Access 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)."High Availability is the best feature of product."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"Overall the solution works well."
"It is a very stable program."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"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 more platforms added."
"The Veritas support for Access Appliance could improve. They are a pioneer in the industry, and they provide an enterprise-level solution. However, when comparing the storage, they can't compete with the NetBackup solution."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews while Veritas Access Appliance is ranked 23rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS). StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while Veritas Access Appliance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Access Appliance writes "Overall functions well, stable, but technical support could improve". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Veritas Access Appliance is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veritas Access and LINBIT SDS.
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