We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and StorPool based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"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."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"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 speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"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."
"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."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"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."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
Earn 20 points
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 183 reviews while StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS and DataCore SANsymphony. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. StorPool report.
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