Dell VMAX vs. StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Dell VMAX

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dell VMAX	Score 9.7 out of 10	N/A	Dell VMAX All Flash is the latest iteration in the former Symmetrix series of enterprise flash array storage, available in the Dell VMAX 250F edition, or the Dell EMC VMAX 950F edition.	N/A
StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	StarWind SA helps organizations with fixed compute platforms meet storage performance and capacity growth requirements by providing them with high-performance and scalable storage covered by 24/7 support. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed to handle high-performance or unpredictable data growth. It serves storage as a single namespace to different environments via multiple uplink protocols: iSCSI, SMB3, NFS, including RDMA-capable iSER and SMB Direct. As an all-flash hyperconvergence…	N/A

Pricing

Dell VMAX

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Dell VMAX	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Dell VMAX	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Considered Both Products	Dell VMAX UK Utkarsh Khandelwal System Administrator Chose Dell VMAX IBM FlashSystem Incentivized Helpful? BS Bhawani Shankar Satapathy AIX Administrator Chose Dell VMAX IBM FlashSystem Incentivized Helpful? AG Amit Gupta AIX Administrator Chose Dell VMAX IBM FlashSystem and Dell EMC Unity Incentivized Helpful? KR Kaushal Rawat AIX Adminsitrator Chose Dell VMAX IBM FlashSystem Incentivized Helpful? DB Debopriya Bhattacharya AIX Administrator Chose Dell VMAX IBM FlashSystem, Dell EMC Unity and IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Incentivized Helpful? SS Srishti Shukla Territory Business Manager Chose Dell VMAX IBM FlashSystem, Dell EMC Unity and IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Incentivized Helpful? Lukas Mizera Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist - Storage Management Chose Dell VMAX IBM FlashSystem A9000, IBM FlashSystem 9200, IBM FlashSystem 5100, IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems), IBM System Storage DS8900F (formerly DS8000), IBM SAN48B-5, IBM DS8880F and Pure Storage FlashArray Incentivized Helpful? PP Paul Phelan System Engineer Chose Dell VMAX The EMC array is a lot more robust, but the PURE array does almost the same with about a tenth of ease from the configuration. It really depends on the type of backend servers that you need to support as to whether you need a EMC array or a PURE array. Incentivized Helpful?	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) Jessica Hull Database Administrator Chose StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) I have not been able to work with same featured product in our organization, however the performance of this platform has been excellent. The support center has been reliable and trustworthy giving us 100% support on daily basis when we deach them. It is affordable to any … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) We used FC-based EMC and Xiotech previously but they were end-of-support and too expensive to upgrade. We looked at several iSCSI solutions such a Dell, NetApp, and others and the cost performance of StarWind was way better. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Dell VMAX

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	Dell VMAX 9.8 Ratings 9% above category average	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) 9.6 Ratings 7% above category average
Flash Array Performance	9.80 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	9.60 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Data Compression	9.80 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	9.90 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Simplicity	9.90 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Power Savings	9.90 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Dell VMAX	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Dell VMAX	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Dell VMAX	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash Storage is a very powerful storage that easily manages huge data transactions with high IO processing speed. This Storage is well suited for critical production environments because response times are much better. This storage enables direct data backup. It's always up and running during updates because it creates a redundant connection from the controller. Incentivized BS Bhawani Shankar Satapathy AIX Administrator Read full review	It is well-suited for small and medium businesses and possibly niches in larger networks. It is iSCSI-based, so not suitable for FC environments. You don't have to have advanced knowledge to implement it, but a little bit of knowledge about how storage works can help. It is excellent for our VMware ESXi environment with three hosts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Powerful storage Easy to set up and use all functions Great storage capacity Hybrid cloud solution Transparent recovery Once we set up and did configuration, no adjustments are required Incentivized DB Debopriya Bhattacharya AIX Administrator Read full review	Very cost-effective. You choose the hardware. Very reliable and performant. Excellent proactive support. They call us when there is an issue. Very flexible. Can mix and match spinning disk and SSD depending on capacity and performance needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Initial configuration are bit difficult need some experience resource to manage it. We faced issue with vendor support during major impact. Incentivized SS Srishti Shukla Territory Business Manager Read full review	Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The best part about this array is that once you have it configured it is pretty much done. There is little to no other configurations to be done other than normal volume adjustments. Support is great as they understand this array very well. The updates are very hands-off and are done solely by support. You contact them and then there are no other changes done on the end-user's side. Incentivized PP Paul Phelan System Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The EMC array is a lot more robust, but the PURE array does almost the same with about a tenth of ease from the configuration. It really depends on the type of backend servers that you need to support as to whether you need a EMC array or a PURE array. Incentivized PP Paul Phelan System Engineer Read full review	I have not been able to work with same featured product in our organization, however the performance of this platform has been excellent. The support center has been reliable and trustworthy giving us 100% support on daily basis when we deach them. It is affordable to any business enterprise that is ready to implement data storage and transfer programs. The maintenance and scalable cost is reasonable and and the services has been great. Jessica Hull Database Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the hybrid cloud solution Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the great storage capacity with data security Data Migration from other storage, data compression, stability Incentivized UK Utkarsh Khandelwal System Administrator Read full review	It enabled us to upgrade our storage and switch from FC to iSCSI at a reasonable cost. iSCSi is so much less expensive to maintain. StarWind is upgradable and you never lose your investment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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