We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."
"The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"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."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"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."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"They could improve the packaging."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"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 the implementation process improved."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
"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."
"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."
"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 main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
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NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN.
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