We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and StorMagic SvSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"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."
"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."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"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."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"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 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"
"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."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"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."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 14th in HCI with 9 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. 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 StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, Veeam Backup & Replication and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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