We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and VMware Software Defined Storage 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)."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution."
"VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption."
"The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware."
"The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"I'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"
"VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version."
"It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors."
"The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VMware Software Defined Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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