We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual Tape Library and VxRail 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."In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The price was right."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"It's very easy to upgrade."
"The VxRail is built on two specific platforms that have been in the industry for the last 15 to 20 years: the 1-U socket and the 2-U socket platforms from Dell. They're in their sixteenth generation of those platforms, I believe, so they're very stable."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Cost-effective and easy to install."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"You don't need to think about compatibility of components."
"I like that there is a dependency on the storage controller."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
"I would like an easier migration. This way, if a node fails like it did, the data would have been migrated and I would not have had to get up at three in the morning."
"The support charges for VxRail should be optimized and made cheaper."
"When it comes to maintenance, it takes 16 hours to upgrade a 12 node VxRail plus. This could be improved in the system."
"It might offer better integration with other products."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"There are still some features which aren't built into Cisco, like virtualized networking, that use its applications. However, these can be purchased through another product as an additional licensing cost to us."
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StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our StarWind Virtual Tape Library vs. VxRail report.
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