We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"It is easy to find information out there, not only from searching the web, but even the times I have engaged VMware support."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"vSAN has just one datastore. so customers do not need to think where to put their VMs, how to design the physical disk RAID, the LUN size, the LUN mapping, etc. when they use NetApp/EMC/HDS or other storage systems."
"I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"It can be very expensive."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"The customer service is good but there is a cost for it. It does not come free."
"It could be cheaper."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"I would like to be able to limit IOPS."
"When we talk about improvements for vSAN, there is some way to go from a at least stability perspective. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level that most of the features you need in production are there."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN, DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VMware vSAN report.
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