We performed a comparison between StorPool and VMware vSAN 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)."Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"All orchestration and monitoring are routed to the cloud."
"While we haven't made major changes to our disaster recovery and business continuity processes yet, moving towards stretch vSAN across sites will simplify and expedite our DR processes in the future."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"We can scale it very easily for a test environment. We were able to segment our DMZ so it wasn't connected to anything, which we really liked."
"The ease of use is great."
"VMware vSAN is a global solution, so we can manage all the storage solutions in one place. It's embedded in VCI solutions."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
"We would like to see even more storage capacity."
"Because of virtual storage, the system reaches reserve storage for its functions. It also consumes a certain amount of storage, which then results in the creation of a fault tolerance for the system. All of this adds to a lot of capacity being consumed in terms of storage for each drive for vSan. I find this to be one drawback of using vSan."
"Its integration with a hybrid cloud can be improved. Its scalability can also be improved so that it can be integrated with more than 32 nodes. The maximum number of nodes is okay, but our use cases could probably do with more nodes, probably up to 64. In terms of new features, it should probably have the basic support for high-speed networking spaces."
"This product is very expensive."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
Earn 20 points
StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. StorPool is rated 10.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, LINBIT SDS, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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