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Pros
"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided.""It's very easy to upgrade storage.""The technical support team is excellent."

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"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good.""The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important.""We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability.""It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters.""What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives.""StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic.""It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions.""This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."

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Cons
"The user interface could be simplified.""The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage.""The performance of the solution must be improved."

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"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently.""The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment.""The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product""There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it.""If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available.""In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented.""They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."

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  • "If you need cheap storage, but still need high availability, it's a good product to look at."
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  • "It's fairly cheap when compared to other options. But it can be improved as some features may not be available in the standard license. The vendor positions it as an edge product, so it isn't suitable to compare with VMware vSAN or Nutanix because that's another product altogether."
  • "The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember."
  • "The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes."
  • "70% cheaper than competitors and provides all the enterprise feature requirements at low cost."
  • "The price of the solution is reasonable. Our budget was two terabytes and the price met our use case well."
  • "The product has good pricing."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The performance of the solution must be improved.
    Top Answer:The solution is used in banks and financial institutions. Customers use the replicated configuration for high availability. They either use the native Gluster client or configure it with NFS… more »
    Top Answer:It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters.
    Top Answer:They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform.
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    Also Known As
    Red Hat Gluster, Red Hat Storage Server
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    Overview

    Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server) is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform designed to handle the requirements of traditional file storage—high-capacity tasks like backup and archival as well as high-performance tasks of analytics and virtualization. But unlike traditional storage systems, Red Hat Gluster Storage isn’t rigid and expensive. It easily scales across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud deployments.

    StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

    SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea.

    SvSAN provides organizations with a simple, 'set and forget' solution that enables lightweight high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, and support up to 1,000 2-node clusters. It provides a low barrier to entry with capacity-based licensing and minimal hardware requirements, allowing organizations to use existing equipment. Plus, any IT professional can deploy and manage 1,000 sites as easily as 1, with automation tools and scripts.

    SvSAN gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 server models and storage types, even mixed within a cluster, while vSphere, Hyper-V or KVM hypervisors can be used. It is built to perform, with code that eliminates performance bottlenecks and caching features to boost performance and prevent over-provisioning. SvSAN accommodates future growth and technologies too, with support for containers and VMs, and allows compute and storage to be scaled easily and independently.

    SvSAN's additional features help to deliver 100% uptime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, even with poor, unreliable networks, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Disaster protection is provided with capability for stretched clusters that reduce risk, plus extensive integrations with backup and DR providers and the option to add a third node to clusters. SvSAN also ensures data security with FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption, software RAID options and the elimination of split-brain risk.

    Sample Customers
    NTT Plala, McMaster University, University of Basque Country, Goodtech ASA, Cox Automotive, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), SaskTel, Glashart Media, Casio
    Sheetz Inc., Giant Eagle, RWE Renewables, Keiser Corp., TDK, Oxford University, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Rommelsbacher, Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, Eugen Forschner GmbH
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Government10%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Manufacturing Company29%
    Engineering Company14%
    Import And Exporter14%
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    Comms Service Provider8%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Government7%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise20%
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise52%
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    Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. 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 StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS and LINBIT SDS, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony and Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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