StarWind Virtual SAN vs. VMware vSAN

StarWind Virtual SAN

148 Reviews and Ratings

VMware vSAN

59 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
StarWind Virtual SAN	Score9.9 out of 10	N/A	StarWind Virtual SAN is software-defined storage for efficient storage and backup.	N/A
VMware vSAN	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.	N/A

Pricing

StarWind Virtual SAN

VMware vSAN

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Pricing Offerings
StarWind Virtual SAN	VMware vSAN
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	StarWind Virtual SAN	VMware vSAN
Considered Both Products	StarWind Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN StarWind Virtual SAN Applicance is available in a hyperconverged scenario, it means you can run it on existing virtual machines and it does the backup against each other by synchronizing the data store with each other. Vmware does not have this type of hyperconvergent approach. … Incentivized Helpful? Seth Weber Network & Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Clarion Forest VNA (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN VMware vSAN requires 3 physical hosts or 2 and a witness, and this was not practical for our situation as we are SMB. StarWind allows us to continue our 2-host virtualization setup and keep all our redundancy and performance. Incentivized Helpful? Giedrius Gedeikis Network System Administrator in Information Technology at UAB Rusnava (Computer Hardware, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN StarWind Virtual SAN is generally less expensive than VMware vSAN, especially when it comes to licensing costs. StarWind Virtual SAN is licensed per node, whereas VMware vSAN requires a license for each CPU core in each node. This can make VMware vSAN significantly more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN We have not used VMware vSAN as much as StarWind but cost is better with StarWind and also support Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Moog Senior Systems Engineer in Engineering at River Run (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN We were initially utilizing HPE Lefthand OS as a virtual SAN which was then set to EOL. We evaluated a number of solutions including VMware vSAN and settled on StarWind. StarWind provided a better value, easier and more intuitive interface, and wasn't wizard driven. Incentivized Helpful? Nisar Ahmad Sr. Systems Engineer in Professional Services at Technology World (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN When it comes to virtual storage solutions, there are a few options to choose from including StarWind Virtual SAN, VMware vSAN, and TrueNAS. I've evaluated each of these solutions and found that StarWind Virtual SAN stacks up well against the competition. For me, the deciding … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN These products are awesome, but not cost-effective for me. VMware vSAN integrates like a glove if you are running fully VMware environment, not other hypervisors. ONTAP Select is awesome, like a real cabinet, but licensing is a bit complex, and expensive. in both cases in a … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Crisp Network System Administrator in Information Technology at Astral Brands (Cosmetics, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN They do everything VMware vSAN can do for what I would say 99% of people need and more for a much cheaper price! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN VMware vSAN did not support 2-node clusters and was more expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN StarWind in our experience has a better pricing service and customer support. Additionally, only 2 host machines are required to setup the VSAN compared to 3 machines minimum recommended by VMware vSAN. This allowed us to save money on the licensing costs,hardware costs, and … Incentivized Helpful? Mart Vernik Administrator in Product Management at RA (Government Administration, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere allows you to use two node setup and still provide highly available storage compared to VMware vSAN which requires three nodes minimum, also with VMware vSAN you have to use certified hardware and you have fewer options to choose from. StarWind … Incentivized Helpful? Dan Reynolds Director of IT in Information Technology at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC (Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN Simply put VMware vSAN - if not included in your license package - is not cost effective at all for an SMB. It was totally out of our price range. Not worth the license upcharge at all. And as I previously mentioned StarWind VSAN is much more cost effective than any hardware … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN Better functionality, less complexity, cost effective Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN StarWind Virtual SAN is easier to setup and use, and less expensive. It also has the flexibility of working with Hyper-V or vSphere. StarWind Virtual SAN as a company is also much easier to work with. Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Armstrong Senior Systems Officer in Information Technology at Domino Machine (Machinery, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN HPE and Dell solutions were just too expensive for our budget. HPE's solution lacked performance. Dell's solution is plagued by bad reviews which told stories of broken patching procedures and terrible support experiences. The only company who offered me a trial of their … Incentivized Helpful? Danny Rackow IT Director in Information Technology at Precise Imaging (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN We selected starwind vsan instead of vmware because of the integrated support they provide for the hardware and the software Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN We have found the solution surprisingly simple to use. The management console allows us to monitor the solution and we have configured email alerts to alert us about critical issues. These alerts have been proven Incentivized Helpful? Francisco Obelenis New Business Manager in Sales at Dualbase Tecnologia Eletronica (Environmental Services, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN StarWind Virtual SAN is the most flexible and reliable system I tested. Although there are other good systems in the market this is the most flexible allowing integration with many Hypervisors Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN On performance vs cost StarWind fills a spot. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN It came down to two things! First a solution that would fit our budget AND having top notch support handling install/implementation and resolution of issues! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN I selected "Windows Server" since I couldn't find S2D in the list... S2D just sucks overall. Crap UI. Crap CLI. Megacrap documentation. VMware is very expensive... Incentivized Helpful? Luca Bertellini Cardio Solution Architect EMEA in Information Technology at GE Healthcare (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN the features that StarWind offer, especially in a ROBO scenario, are the same as all the other competitor but with a fraction of the cost Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN Ease of use, simplicity of set up and deployment, licensing cost and structure, and hardware freedom. When comparing to other big name solutions there is clearly a advantage from a cost and simplicity perspective while not sacrificing performance and reliability. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Benson IT Manager in Information Technology at North Valley Health Center (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind Virtual SAN The biggest difference in my opinion between these two is the level of integration that VMWare's solution provides. It's a purpose-built solution for their environment so it will enjoy tighter integration across their product stack. Because StarWind is platform-agnostic it's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind Virtual SAN Starwind VSAN is also as integrated as these other solutions but its cost point is ridiculously less to integrate. Also, Starwind VSAN literally configures your environment and helps you manage it. Also by extension, you have more flexibility in adding storage to the VSAN … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware by Broadcom No answer on this topic
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	Delivers good value for the price
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User Ratings
	StarWind Virtual SAN	VMware vSAN
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (144 ratings)	10.0 (17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.6 (14 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.7 (13 ratings)	9.2 (4 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (120 ratings)	7.5 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.8 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.3 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)