"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"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."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
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Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 21st in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 4 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 5th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 46 reviews. Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.4, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Scale Computing HC3 writes "Good stability with a straightforward setup, but scaling is difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, VxRail, Sangfor HCI and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Nutanix Acropolis AOS. See our Scale Computing HC3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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