We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"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 management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 90 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable software storage solution that offers performance, reliability, and affordability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony, StorMagic SvSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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