We performed a comparison between StarWind HyperConverged Appliance and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"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 vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"The customer service has been the most valuable feature of the product to me."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"It's a good product based on the features. You can upgrade the solution with only one click."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"It has a valuable deduplication feature."
"We deploy VxRail systems to provide our customers with a distributed information solution. The customer was impressed because we delivered a serious data reduction. For example, we showed them that 10 terabytes on their traditional storage solution could be reduced to 1.5 terabytes in the VxRail systems. That's why the customers also like it so much,"
"Low-maintenance solution with hyperscale feature so it has the ability to utilize the resources for the VMware cluster setup on which Citrix VDA runs."
"We like the design and that it meets data storage needs."
"Enterprise is a complete solution that includes performance, backups and disaster recovery."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"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."
"The overall product documentation and knowledgebase articles could use some rewriting and clarification."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
"Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"The only area that the product could improve would be user training."
"The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work."
"It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"VxRail could improve by having domain protection."
"When it comes to maintenance, it takes 16 hours to upgrade a 12 node VxRail plus. This could be improved in the system."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"You have to buy a new server if you want to scale up."
"They're getting better with their one-click upgrade. The success factor is now between 85% to 87% with the latest release. They should just continuously improve on that one-click factor and make it more seamless."
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 38 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 43 reviews. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Excellent support and documentation with flexible pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "It's built on platforms that have been in the industry for more than 15 years, so it's very stable". StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), StorMagic SvSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and VMware vSAN, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our StarWind HyperConverged Appliance vs. VxRail report.
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