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StarWind Storage Appliance vs StorMagic SvSAN comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.0
StarWind Storage Appliance users saw reduced costs, improved performance, and increased efficiency, with easy scalability and high reliability.
Sentiment score
8.4
StorMagic SvSAN reduces server costs and downtime, enhancing ROI by delivering significant savings and cost-efficient operations.
We have seen a positive return on investment of 15%.
StorMagic SvSAN helped us save around sixty percent on previous costs.
Since using StorMagic, we've seen a positive return on investment of at least 30 percent due to reduced need for engineers and minimized downtime.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
9.0
StarWind Storage Appliance customer service is praised for 24x7 troubleshooting, professionalism, high technical support ratings, and helpful videos.
Sentiment score
8.7
StorMagic SvSAN's customer support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and 24/7 assistance, enhancing the user experience significantly.
I rate them at a nine out of ten due to their prompt responses and effective solutions to our issues.
They respond rapidly to support requests and provide assistance beyond their scope.
StorMagic offers exemplary customer and technical support, ensuring excellent service and timely assistance that enhances my clients' experience.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
StarWind Storage Appliance is scalable, adaptable, hardware-independent, supports unlimited storage, and is effective in standalone and hyperconverged environments.
Sentiment score
7.3
StorMagic SvSAN is scalable for edge deployments but may face challenges in larger enterprises due to networking and costs.
We can simply add more ESX hosts to a cluster and deploy additional controllers without any issues.
StorMagic SvSAN is easy to scale.
Scaling CPU and servers can be costly due to increased licensing fees beyond two nodes.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.9
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for stability, robust performance, and high user ratings, especially on well-maintained Windows OS.
Sentiment score
8.7
StorMagic SvSAN is praised for stability, redundancy, reliability, scalability, and seamless maintenance, ensuring uninterrupted IT operations.
StorMagic SvSAN has demonstrated flawless stability over the past six years, with no reported downtime, bugs, or glitches.
Its ability to seamlessly migrate running machines to another host during maintenance ensures uninterrupted operations and a transparent user experience.
So far, we have not experienced any downtime since using StorMagic SvSAN, and I expect this stability to continue in the future.
 

Room For Improvement

StarWind Storage Appliance requires improved integration, easier setup, better insights, and feature parity between demo and paid versions.
StorMagic SvSAN requires better licensing, features, UI, scalability, documentation, and integration for improved user experience and cost efficiency.
It would be beneficial to have a central place for configurations, similar to VMware vCenter.
Ideally, the console should provide plugins or similar configuration options for seamless integration with these tools.
Unauthorized access to the SvSAN server could cause significant damage.
 

Setup Cost

StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its affordability, straightforward licensing, and excellent value compared to competitors for SMEs.
StorMagic SvSAN offers cost-effective storage, 20-70% cheaper than VMware vSAN, with flexible pricing based on usable capacity.
I would rate the cost a one out of ten with ten being the most costly.
Choosing the maximum capacity proved cost-effective, especially compared to alternatives like VMware vSAN, which would have been significantly more expensive based on VCP cores.
While not the cheapest option, it offers comparable functionality for 20 to 30 percent lower than its competitors.
 

Valuable Features

StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its user-friendly interface, high performance, reliability, excellent support, affordability, and robust data protection.
StorMagic SvSAN provides cost-effective, easy-to-use storage virtualization with high availability, platform independence, and robust encryption for budget-constrained users.
I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex.
It helps in encrypting the data and prevents unauthorized users, such as hackers, from accessing my information.
The built-in FIPS-compliant encryption eliminates the need for expensive data management specialists while ensuring data security.
 

Categories and Ranking

StarWind Storage Appliance
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
NAS (14th), All-Flash Storage (29th)
StorMagic SvSAN
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (6th), HCI (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed for NAS and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, down 1.3% compared to last year.
StorMagic SvSAN, on the other hand, focuses on Software Defined Storage (SDS), holds 7.4% mindshare, up 5.3% since last year.
NAS
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
 

Featured Reviews

Kishore CA - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes.
The only drawback is that it takes a bit of time during initial synchronization, especially after restarting the environment. This is a potential area of improvement. There's a synchronization time, but it takes time. Initially, when we start the first environment deployment, it starts synchronizing between the storage. So, it is taking time. One thing is that even when you restart. Let's assume that the synchronization is completed and the storage is synchronized. Both storages are fully synchronized, and it is in sync mode. Now, if we want to restart both nodes, there is a case for maintenance purposes. You took both nodes for maintenance, and we rebooted it. Then, it should not synchronize again. It should be a checksum. And if there is a checksum match, there should be no synchronization again. So, one thing that should be taken care of. Another thing is that I used freeware- the community version, free license, which we deployed using PowerShare. In that case, it was very difficult to bring back another node when one node was faulty. Let's assume that both the nodes are working fine. And we found one node faulty. And we destroyed all the volumes in that and tried to bring it back. So that was a difficult factor. The final solution is that we were not able to bring back the failed node. So, we reconstructed a new data source for that. That is another drawback. In future releases, I would like to see the integration with VMware or some other things as a plugin model for VMware.
Dhanraj Garbou - PeerSpot reviewer
Significantly improved the organization by providing reliable support and straightforward configuration procedures
StorMagic SvSAN is more user-friendly than other software-defined virtual SAN solutions, especially for smaller businesses. It is capable of working on any hardware, making it cost-effective. StorMagic SvSAN allows the use of any storage type. The Witness feature, which can handle over 1,000 clusters, is helpful for our clients. StorMagic SvSAN offers a distinct advantage over its competitors by including the stretch cluster feature. This functionality, not commonly found in rival products at cost, enhances data availability and disaster recovery capabilities. It is not difficult to administer all of our storage clusters using Edge control. StorMagic SvSAN is the right management tool for StorMagic and enterprise customers, providing a cost-effective solution. It reduces downtime by about 40 percent. StorMagic SvSAN offers cost savings compared to other software-defined virtual SAN solutions. It has significantly improved the organization by providing reliable support and straightforward configuration procedures, benefiting both my enterprise and SMB customers. StorMagic SvSAN is a hyperconverged, high-availability solution with enterprise-grade functionality. Its vendor—and hardware-agnostic design makes it a cost-effective choice for businesses seeking high availability.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
15%
Retailer
7%
Computer Software Company
17%
Retailer
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about StarWind Storage Appliance?
I would say data protection and easy management are the most valuable features of the product...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
What needs improvement with StarWind Storage Appliance?
StarWind Storage Appliance's demo version should be similar to the paid one.
What do you like most about StorMagic SvSAN?
It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorMagic SvSAN?
I don't handle pricing directly, but based on information from white papers, the solution appears to provide cost benefits.
What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?
Areas for improvement include adding more sensors, compression and deduplication capabilities, increasing the supported nodes for enterprise customers, and enhancing network security. The solution ...
 

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Sample Customers

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