We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and StorPool 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.
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"It is extremely stable."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"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."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"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."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 55 reviews while StorPool is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Great service and support with a constant addition of new features". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Gluster Storage, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Zadara, Portworx Enterprise, DataCore SANsymphony and SwiftStack.
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