We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and VMware vSAN 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."StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The price was right."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"We have found the solution to be very scalable."
"When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes"
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"The flexibility is most valuable. Being able to manage things quickly if something goes wrong is also valuable. Very recently, we had one node that went down due to a power problem, but there was really no major impact on the systems running on top of it."
"The solution is stable."
"We find it easy to deliver this solution."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"The only negative point relates to the licensing. If you want multiple, different servers, it costs money, but you have all the capacity for vSAN. You do not reach the data, but the processor arrays and the current architecture."
"A vSAN cluster must have compression and deduplication to be an all-flash array, but it's not supported with a hybrid array. Deduplication and compression work better with an all-flash array, so I think that VMware should give customers the option to activate and support this feature for hybrid arrays. Other products like Nutanix support this."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 88 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 66 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Nimble Storage. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VMware vSAN report.
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