We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and VxRail 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."You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it allows everything to be integrated into a single model, comprised of hardware and software."
"It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"What I like the most in terms of features is the fact that the VxRail update can be done in one week. It takes much less time to do a whole server upgrade and an infrastructure update as well."
"This product has given us clear visibility into what we need technology-wise to grow."
"The solution is perfect for the lifecycle management of hardware."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The documentation could be better."
"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."
"Sometimes during implementation, you can some scripting errors. And there are some issues when we update the version. There are some issues like the version will not get updated or stable at some time. Dell needs to resolve these problems, we don't waste time fixing them."
"The implementation of a VxRail, it's straightforward, but the ongoing utilization, and integration, are where it can start to become difficult if you're not used to doing it."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"While VxRail offers compatibility with AMD processors, its capabilities in this area could benefit from further development."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VxRail report.
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