We performed a comparison between Commvault Distributed Storage [EOL] and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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)."Some customers have chosen this solution for its features, benefits, and user-friendly interface."
"Commvault is a user-friendly tool, so most people are happy to adopt this solution."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"StarWind's proactive support is my favorite feature."
"It improved all services running on the new cluster and took up less space and less energy."
"We no longer need multiple staff members performing small, mundane tasks."
"StarWind is very resilient and built off of quality vendor hardware."
"We also opted for 24-hour support monitoring for any issues. They are extremely quick to respond on issues we even cause ourselves such as bumping a network cable."
"The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions."
"Reliability and overall uptime are key as we're also hosting client environments in addition to our own."
"The solution does not support some cloud SaaS applications and has room for improvement with better integration to the storage array."
"NAS backups and BNP protocol backups could be improved. We require some more advanced features. I would also like some features that would enable us to deploy faster, like an orchestrator or something."
"One area for improvement of the solution is that I had to get Windows, which I really didn't want because of the extra maintenance or overhead, as well as viruses, etc. It's going to take time for them to get their Linux to that point. They already have Linux but it's not as mature and they don't really support it on HCAs. They have it for individuals who want to use it on their servers, but not on HCAs."
"The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"The only real flaw that I have seen so far is this hard drive that was accidentally ejected because when it was received and added back into the RAID. There was an error there. It was not added back into the RAID correctly, so I have an outstanding hard disk. Apparently, a guy just knocked it with his hand as he was in my office, so it was just a small eject. He said that he didn't crash into anything. That is the only thing that has reared its head."
"The only thing that can use improvement is the StarWind Management Console and Command Center."
"The monitoring and report software is a bit hit and miss."
"In the future, it would be nice to be able to migrate from the Windows vSAN to the Linux vSAN without having to do a full restore from backups."
"The only thing I have run into is that I did want to add more hard drives into the host, so that we could look at doing a RAID 10, and the hard drive prices were pretty expensive... that's pretty nit-picky and I don't think it has anything to do with StarWind itself. I think it's more on whomever they work with for their hardware."
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Commvault Distributed Storage [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Commvault Distributed Storage [EOL] is rated 9.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Commvault Distributed Storage [EOL] writes "Fast storage, performance, and backup for users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Commvault Distributed Storage [EOL] is most compared with Portworx Enterprise and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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