We performed a comparison between StorPool and VMware vSAN 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)."Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"We are finding that vSAN is a lot more scalable and adaptable, because we can go in with hybrid arrays for our lower-end storage needs or with all-flash versions of vSAN for places where we need more performance, and it's coming in at a lower cost point than an actual traditional array."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"It is user-friendly, and its performance is good."
"The most valuable features of vSAN are its simplicity to deploy and that we can use commodity disks in our servers without complexity or need for external storage arrays or storage specialists on our teams."
"It easily integrates with all types of storage."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"It is more stable now than it was before. It's not like it was in the first year. Now it is stable, and we trust it more."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"Disaster recovery needs to be improved, when there is a crisis, there is a problem with what is the quickest way to get out of it."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"he list of hardware supported should be increased in the future."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"The solution could be improved by having more filtered and multiple view volumes instead of a single view."
"Better options would be clustered nodes, or even cloud configuration. There is room for improvement in cloud configuration, we typically do web browsing for management."
Earn 20 points
StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. StorPool is rated 10.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, LINBIT SDS, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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