"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."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"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."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"We did have some integration issues."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
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Nutanix Acropolis AOS is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 76 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews. Nutanix Acropolis AOS is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Acropolis AOS writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Cost-effective, reliable, and the initial setup and deployment are included in the price". Nutanix Acropolis AOS is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, Scality RING8, Sangfor HCI and FalconStor FreeStor. See our Nutanix Acropolis AOS vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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