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StorMagic SvSAN vs VMware vSAN comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 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
8.2
StorMagic SvSAN saves costs by using two servers, reducing expenses and achieving break-even in two years.
Sentiment score
4.8
Organizations found VMware vSAN impacts varied, with cost savings and productivity gains, but faced challenges in precise financial measurement.
StorMagic SvSAN helped us save around sixty percent on previous costs.
With StorMagic, we calculate the return on investment to be about two years, compared to other solutions we could have adopted.
StorMagic SvSAN has delivered great benefits in overall cost-efficiency since it is an integral part of our complete solutions for clients.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.7
StorMagic SvSAN support is praised for expertise, rapid 24/7 responses, continuity, and a commitment to customer satisfaction.
Sentiment score
5.6
VMware vSAN support is generally praised for responsiveness and competence, though users note variability in response times and delays.
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.
I am not satisfied with VMware support, particularly with the reaction times, SLAs, and those kinds of issues.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
StorMagic SvSAN is praised for scalability in edge environments, ideal for small to medium businesses, but costly for larger setups.
Sentiment score
6.5
VMware vSAN offers flexible scaling, enabling efficient infrastructure expansion, appreciated for seamless storage and performance boost across workloads.
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
8.8
StorMagic SvSAN is praised for stability, efficiency, and reliability, supporting data flows seamlessly across varied IT infrastructures.
Sentiment score
5.7
VMware vSAN is generally stable with high performance, though hardware compatibility and minor glitches are occasionally reported.
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.
The stability of StorMagic SvSAN is excellent.
 

Room For Improvement

StorMagic SvSAN needs improved licensing, scalability, features, user interface, security, monitoring integration, enterprise modeling, documentation, and pricing.
VMware vSAN requires improvements in management, compatibility, cost, monitoring, and stability, with challenges in user interface and integration.
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.
Maybe incorporation of automation to build clusters in a more automated way would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

StorMagic SvSAN offers competitive, predictable pricing based on capacity, providing cost efficiency over larger storage providers like VMware.
VMware vSAN offers enterprise storage features with potential cost savings but can be costly for smaller businesses.
The pricing model, based on the usable storage capacity, is simple and predictable.
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.
 

Valuable Features

StorMagic SvSAN offers easy implementation, high availability, and cost-effectiveness, ideal for budget-conscious enterprises with limited infrastructure needs.
VMware vSAN offers high performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, easy deployment, and integration, providing flexible storage for evolving business needs.
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.
For our solution in production plants, stability is crucial.
StorMagic engineers were very helpful in setting up the system, remoting into our system to assist, which was very beneficial.
A one-stack solution from one vendor is the main benefit here.
 

Categories and Ranking

StorMagic SvSAN
Ranking in HCI
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (6th)
VMware vSAN
Ranking in HCI
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
230
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of StorMagic SvSAN is 2.1%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware vSAN is 15.9%, down from 18.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
HCI
 

Featured Reviews

Georgi Petrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain
What we like the most is how easy it is to implement. 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. StorMagic SvSAN does not have hardware-specific requirements and is hypervisor agnostic, which makes it easier compared to competitors like HPE SimpliVity that are limited to specific hardware. This solution has allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain.
Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources
Stability can be improved. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level where most of the features you need in production are there. The stability is not from a day-to-day operations perspective, but more from a supportability perspective, because currently some of the support scenarios require you to completely evacuate hosts or the complete cluster. That sometimes can be a stretch. This would clearly be an improvement if the support teams were given additional tools to make that easier. Upgradability could be a bit easier sometimes. We are now where vSAN can be updated without ESXi, but there is still enough dependency. So that would be good if that actually would be uncoupled even more. Dashboards are there, and we use vROps as well. So, we have all the beauty of capacity planning and everything over there. That's not really something where we need a lot of other things.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Retailer
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
53%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
 

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?
StorMagic's pricing model is fair, allowing payment based on actual use.
What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?
Maybe the hardware compatibility could be expanded or widened. Another point could be to change the price model since it has lots of capacity but does not always fit our pricing requirements. We ar...
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Also Known As

StorMagic
vSAN
 

Overview

 

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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