We performed a comparison between Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The solution is stable and everything is taken care of through the Huawei support center. They ensure everything is running smoothly. It's been very good."
"The best thing about the solution is that it combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place. Unlike the traditional three-tier setup, you don't need to buy separate devices for each part. This makes it much easier to control and manage everything in one go without switching between different places for different tasks."
"The pricing of the solution is excellent. It's one of the main reasons a customer chooses Huawei. It's much, much better than VMware."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the relocating of resources."
"The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it."
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"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"It is a stable solution."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"t would be helpful if the solution was able to collaborate or integrate with other well-known monitoring tools. Right now, you have to work hard to get it configured. It would be a good selling point for them if they could open up their solution to more integrations."
"I want the product to be used more efficiently and for our system to connect easily with cloud services like AWS, Oracle, and IBM. We can also improve by adding advanced features like snapshots, replication, and encryption, allowing for more growth. Introducing features such as data duplication, data analytics, and AI-driven insights will improve its deployments."
"The solution currently does not have cloud integration."
"Technical support needs improvement. There's a lot of language barriers."
"Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure could improve the security of the solution. However, we are comfortable using it. Additionally, there could be more information provided for the solution and the interface could be more user-friendly."
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"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
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Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is ranked 17th in HCI with 5 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is rated 7.8, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure writes "Combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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