We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ease of deployment is a positive feature that allows us to scale easily."
"The multi-vertical aspect is what is most valuable for us. The main reason we wanted a multi protocol was because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data as we could get from Linux and Windows lengths. That was our value proposition for this solution."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."
"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."
"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."
"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."
"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , 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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