We performed a comparison between Red Hat Gluster Storage and StarWind Virtual SAN 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)."The technical support team is excellent."
"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."
"It's very easy to upgrade storage."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"The performance of the solution must be improved."
"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"This is a great product."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, IBM Spectrum Scale, LizardFS and Portworx Enterprise, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorPool.
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