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We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and Veritas Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working.""Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs.""The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call.""The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable.""High Availability is the best feature of product.""It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it.""Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software.""Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."

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"It has a huge deduplication ratio for backups of long-term archives.""The product deployment is easy.""Veritas Access is user-friendly and the NAS and SAN volumes are valuable."

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Cons
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page.""Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items.""The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc.""StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere.""With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs.""We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support.""It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems.""Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."

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"The downtime of Veritas Access could be improved.""I would like to see Veritas Access included as an S3 target.""They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective."

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  • "The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great."
  • "We are happy with the price."
  • "The license is reusable. We can always rebuild it and apply the license. Then, boom, we get new servers, apply the license, and we're back up and running."
  • "The pricing is fine for the work that it does."
  • "When we did all the analysis for StarWind, it was approximately 20 percent less than any of the other solutions that we looked at."
  • "The scalability limitation for us is its licensing. At some point in the fairly near future, we will probably have to upgrade our license so we can store eight terabytes instead of four. We are currently at four terabytes, but we're starting to knock on the door of that capacity."
  • "The pricing is excellent. It will run on anything. You don't have to buy a $100,000 server, with hardware you don't need. You just pay for the license and you're good to go."
  • "The licensing is a bit weird. If you license the standard version of StarWind, it allows you four terabytes. Then, they have a pro version, but with the pro version, the only difference is it doubles the terabytes to eight."
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  • "This product is not cheap. The only extra cost is the licensing."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool”… more »
    Top Answer:I would highly advise new users to consult the StarWind technical team beforehand. Also, consider the paid version if you want the ease of management through the console GUI and not just use it for… more »
    Top Answer:You can maintain and update it with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost-effective point… more »
    Top Answer:They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective.
    Top Answer:We use the product for long-term data retention.
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    StarWind SAN & NAS
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    Overview

    StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

    Veritas Access is a software-defined, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) solution for unstructured data that uses intelligent policies to optimize data placement on-premise or on public clouds. Access provides resiliency, multi-protocol access and automated data movement to realize application performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability gains.

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    Manufacturing Company11%
    Construction Company8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Small Business65%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Buyer's Guide
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    May 2024
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    StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews while Veritas Access is ranked 17th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while Veritas Access is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Access writes "Provides seamless integration within the existing infrastructure and has an easy deployment process ". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Veritas Access is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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