We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"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."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"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 main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
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StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 183 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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