We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and VMware Software Defined Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution."
"The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware."
"VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption."
"The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved."
"It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors."
"I'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"
"VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VMware Software Defined Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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