We performed a comparison between StorMagic SvSAN 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."Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"The recent technologies and management features that have been implemented."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation and integration points with other automation tools."
"I like that there is a dependency on the storage controller."
"The low latency and response times and having a virtualized environment within a single computer are valuable. I have no physical elements, and I can optimize or balance my data depending on the sales volume that I have in a specific store."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"It's very easy to upgrade."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"My main issue so far is that the installation created a default datacenter name of "Marvin" and it cannot be changed."
"I can't speak to any missing features or weak aspects of the system just yet. We haven't had a chance to really dig in."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"They're getting better with their one-click upgrade. The success factor is now between 85% to 87% with the latest release. They should just continuously improve on that one-click factor and make it more seamless."
"There are still some features which aren't built into Cisco, like virtualized networking, that use its applications. However, these can be purchased through another product as an additional licensing cost to us."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"In the version that I was working with, the integrations are in need of improvement."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
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StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 14th in HCI with 9 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 112 reviews. StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our StorMagic SvSAN vs. VxRail report.
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