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."I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"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."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"The product could use a better control center."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"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."
"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."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The documentation could be better."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 183 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, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Scale Computing HC3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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