We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"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 solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"It's an all-flash solution. NetApp guarantees 3-to-1 or more than 3-to-1. It has guaranteed performance, like 15K IOPS per node."
"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
"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."
"There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"The product needs better support for installing the operating system on the machine."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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