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."Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Having this all backed up by pro-active support gives us good peace of mind."
"The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions."
"The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."
"Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing."
"The StarWind array has greatly improved our workflow internally as it is quite easy to use and provides robust features that allow us to provide anything our clients need quickly and efficiently."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"The customer service has been the most valuable feature of the product to me."
"StarWind is very resilient and built off of quality vendor hardware."
"It's very easy to upgrade."
"t's a very good solution with multiple options with VxRail series like based on customer requirements whether they're focused on compute, storage, scalability and high performance, etc. Whether a customer you are going to start your IT Infrastructure footprint with a limited budget, you have freedom of choice and non-disruptive expansion in the future, whether in the main data center or branches. Any idea coming in system admins mind to run this setup continuously and keep service 100% 24/7 is possible in this product line. Hyper-converged appliances allow a datacenter in a box approach, with G, E P, Vand P series."
"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."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"It's a simple product, fast, and reliable."
"The most valuable features are ease of management and ease of applying updates."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"It's a good product based on the features. You can upgrade the solution with only one click."
"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."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"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."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"Possible new features could be CSV-level snapshot capability, Veeam integration, and maybe a more straightforward setup. Granted, you don't have to worry about setups with the HCA, but if you want to implement StarWind vSAN in a lab to test it is a tedious setup process."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"The response time is usually several hours after the issue occurred."
"We struggle a little with capacity management with the StarWind Hyperconverged appliance."
"A possible thing is perhaps a customer portal to schedule a time with support online via a calendar."
"The only issues are when Hyper V itself has limitations and I'd love to see support or enhancement in the area of direct-attached GPU cards."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"The only thing that can use improvement is the StarWind Management Console and Command Center."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"The cost is quite high. It's a very expensive solution to run."
"Integration could be improved."
"The upgrade packages require a lot of bandwidth. This could be reduced for an improved experience."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"I can't speak to any missing features or weak aspects of the system just yet. We haven't had a chance to really dig in."
"We would like to see integrating with Nutanix. Currently, we are working on integrating the two to see if there is any value in doing so."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 43 reviews while VxRail is ranked 3rd in HCI with 71 reviews. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Flexible and easy to set up with excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Good automation makes this solution practical". StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, NetApp HCI and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our StarWind HyperConverged Appliance vs. VxRail report.
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