We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."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."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"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."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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