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."The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The newer versions of this solution are much more stable and easier to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"It is easier to deploy than the traditional SAN."
"The deduplication and compression are excellent."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"The vSAN features we've found most helpful are live application migrations and storage policies. It has storage, policies, application, and DRS policies. Automation is there."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"Pricing is something of a concern."
"I lose a node in a cluster vSAN, which is also used as a cluster HA. I lose not only the storage part, which is not necessarily serious (depending on the configuration of the vSAN cluster), but on the other hand, I lose also a node of Compute, which can make things complicated quickly."
"The vSan product uses a software system called Vsphere to monitor the system. It is sometimes difficult to manage the PCs within the systems."
"I'd like to see better integration with the Update Manager, with respect to firmware updates for hardware."
"We are facing some problems with updates with the VMware vSAN. When we upgraded from version 6.5 to 7, we have been faced with many problems. They have been deploying many hotfixes for this version, and they need to continue to improve this version."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 105 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 13 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VMware vSAN report.
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