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StorMagic SvSAN vs StorPool comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

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
8.4
StorMagic SvSAN reduces server costs and downtime, enhancing ROI by delivering significant savings and cost-efficient operations.
Sentiment score
7.3
Organizations reduced TCO using StorPool, benefiting from commodity hardware, increasing gross margin by 15% with favorable cost per GB.
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
8.7
StorMagic SvSAN's customer support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and 24/7 assistance, enhancing the user experience significantly.
Sentiment score
9.2
StorPool excels in customer service with responsive support, expert advice, and quick deployment, ensuring infrastructure optimization and satisfaction.
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
7.3
StorMagic SvSAN is scalable for edge deployments but may face challenges in larger enterprises due to networking and costs.
Sentiment score
8.5
StorPool offers seamless scalability through easy node integration, enhancing performance and capacity without service interruptions across deployments.
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
8.7
StorMagic SvSAN is praised for stability, redundancy, reliability, scalability, and seamless maintenance, ensuring uninterrupted IT operations.
Sentiment score
8.1
StorPool offers reliable, stable performance with advanced features like compression, ensuring continuous data protection and commercial advantages.
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

StorMagic SvSAN requires better licensing, features, UI, scalability, documentation, and integration for improved user experience and cost efficiency.
StorPool's users seek a more intuitive UI, faster feature rollout, and increased visibility of new functionalities and integrations.
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

StorMagic SvSAN offers cost-effective storage, 20-70% cheaper than VMware vSAN, with flexible pricing based on usable capacity.
StorPool offers flexible, cost-effective pricing with high performance, scalability, and excellent support, reducing total cost of ownership.
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

StorMagic SvSAN provides cost-effective, easy-to-use storage virtualization with high availability, platform independence, and robust encryption for budget-constrained users.
StorPool provides scalable, high-performance storage with robust management, redundancy, and stability, ideal for complex, global deployments.
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

StorMagic SvSAN
Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
HCI (8th)
StorPool
Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
20th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of StorMagic SvSAN is 7.4%, up from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StorPool is 2.3%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
it_user689271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency
We initially started using StorPool at three locations with a capacity of 250+ TB.By implementing StorPool, we managed to increase both our gross margins and performance, while decreasing the latency to 0.19-0.26 ms up to 125,000 IOPS We now deliver all-flash performance and improved uptime with…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Retailer
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
20%
Performing Arts
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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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Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Sheetz Inc., Giant Eagle, RWE Renewables, Keiser Corp., TDK, Oxford University, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Rommelsbacher, Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, Eugen Forschner GmbH
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