We performed a comparison between Scale Computing HC3 and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"The product could use a better control center."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Scale Computing HC3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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