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"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"It is scalable, overall. If you need to add storage, it makes it easy to scale by adding additional hard drives into the existing servers or you can add storage by just adding more servers."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"Very easy to implement in any existing environment."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"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."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"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."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
"The stability needs to be improved."
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SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. SteelFusion is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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