We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"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 is a stable solution."
"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."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"The product's initial setup phase was very straightforward."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to continue our business needs and have higher visibility. It has definitely increased our business productivity levels."
"It is user-friendly, and its performance is good."
"It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"They require more media visibility."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"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"
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"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 solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"Its price could be improved. It is too expensive for our clients."
"The solution functions as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules."
"It doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"Pricing is something of a concern."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
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StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 14th in HCI with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN, 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 Tape Library vs. VMware vSAN report.
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