We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate 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 most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"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."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony.
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