We performed a comparison between Springpath [EOL] and StarWind Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"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."
"It's quite easy to install."
"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."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"It is very easy to use and very cost effective."
"We saw an ROI. We have saved both time and money by using it."
"We are able to easily back up our data and send it to an offsite location."
"The management interface is the most valuable feature for us."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it an attractive option, especially for customers who may not be highly tech-savvy."
"Another good feature is that you can pause the appliance if you want to move it from one location to another and then once it's moved you can resume it, this way you can physically move the whole cluster or storage without any downtime. Its really easy to use, if you have a good foundation in storage and clustering then you will need less then one hour to figure out how to operate it."
"Having instant failover redundancy helps me sleep easier at night."
"The integration is excellent."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"It needs more integration with backup vendors so there is native integration with it that will allow storage level backup/snapshots. I would love to see integration with Veeam and Commvault so it can be recognized by them directly and added as network storage."
"With StarWind Storage Appliance, it would be better to have an overall easier setup with a little bit of configuration changes since, currently, even a small mistake may cause the setup process to go wrong."
"StarWind no longer sells HDDs for primary storage."
"The dashboard features are not in the free version."
"They offered onsite installation, but we chose to do it ourselves. That took longer and was more work for us but saved us a ton of money in the end."
"StarWind should improve the synchronization time of its product. There should be a standard operating procedure (SOP) for synchronization to reduce the time it takes."
"An improvement would be if they reached out to education customers with other available products."
"They could improve by providing integration with HP."
Earn 20 points
Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while StarWind Storage Appliance is ranked 10th in NAS with 9 reviews. Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0, while StarWind Storage Appliance is rated 9.2. 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 Storage Appliance writes "Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes". Springpath [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind Storage Appliance is most compared with FreeNAS, StoneFly VSO NAS, StorMagic SvSAN and VMware vSAN.
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