We performed a comparison between Red Hat Gluster Storage and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."It's very easy to upgrade storage."
"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."
"The technical support team is excellent."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The performance of the solution must be improved."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
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Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 105 reviews. Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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