We performed a comparison between Springpath [EOL] and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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)."The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"The option to deploy a hyper-converged system without an expensive storage switch was a benefit."
"Reliability and overall uptime are key as we're also hosting client environments in addition to our own."
"Having this all backed up by pro-active support gives us good peace of mind."
"The hardware footprint is great. We've got two 2U servers which replaced four 2U servers. Granted, they were about three years old at that point, but we actually increased our processing capacity by about 50 percent while keeping our storage capacity about the same. We've actually been able to downgrade to a half rack from a full rack because we've gotten rid of some of our network equipment and some of our additional storage arrays."
"Customer service has been excellent. Any questions we have had have been answered quickly."
"However, StarWind HCA won us over in two areas: price and support. We were actually able to install an all-flash StarWind HCA for less than other vendors' spinning rust solutions! We were able to roll five years of warranty and support into the purchase price and still save thousands of dollars upfront."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"At the moment, the initial configuration is very technical and error-prone. That is the reason Starwind does it for you as a service, which is a great thing. But it would be nice if we could change or rearrange storage assignments ourselves."
"Most meetings are done via Zoom, and I'm sure you could switch to a text based conversation if needed as they seem like a very accommodating team. It's not something I would worry about if you are a potential client."
"I think that the pre-installation questionnaire was a little confusing and ambiguous."
"We ran into some issues with going from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Hyper-V 2019."
"This product is not one hundred percent enterprise-ready, so it is more suitable for SMB."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"I wish I understood what goes into the StarWind software a little bit better. To me, it's kind of magic the way some of it works. As an IT professional, you don't really want things to be magic. I do wish there was a little more "Here's how it works." There could be more documentation given to administrators..."
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Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Springpath [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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