We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and StorMagic SvSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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