We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"I like the new releases that Dell EMC is doing with VMware. They are allowing for flexibility across the hybrid cloud. This allows organizations to use containers and to be able to move into the public cloud, but also not have lock-in. They can come back to the private cloud when they want to, so it's creating a lot of flexibility across the stack."
"This is a good solution for medium-sized installations especially when it will be coupled with VMware."
"VxRail is easy to deploy and easy to scale up."
"It has a valuable deduplication feature."
"It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"The VxRail is built on two specific platforms that have been in the industry for the last 15 to 20 years: the 1-U socket and the 2-U socket platforms from Dell. They're in their sixteenth generation of those platforms, I believe, so they're very stable."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"VxRail could be easier to set up. It's tricky to configure the network properly and match the requirements."
"I wish for the performance environment to be improved."
"It could be improved by having more information on the integration portion of ACI."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"We spend around six months waiting for a confirmation and firmware upgrade to confirm this step."
"I would like to see VxRail add duplication features to its hybrid solution."
"Integration could be improved."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
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StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN, 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 Tape Library vs. VxRail report.
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