Dell VMAX vs. StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dell VMAX
Score 9.7 out of 10
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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
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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 VMAXStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Dell VMAXStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Dell VMAXStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
Dell VMAX
9.8
9 Ratings
7% above category average
StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
9.6
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Flash Array Performance9.89 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Flash Array Integration9.69 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data Compression9.79 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades9.98 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Simplicity9.98 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Power Savings9.98 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray
Score 9.3 out of 10
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray
Score 9.3 out of 10
Dell VMAX
Dell VMAX
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Dell VMAXStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(9 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Dell VMAXStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend
Dell Technologies
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.
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StarWind
It is well suited in data transfer and storage of files under secure environment. It has contributed to immediate Return on Investment with low cost performance. I totally recommend it to any company for its high speed performance under secure data channels. It does reliable reporting on data integration and analysis on daily basis pointing out areas that have challenging operations.
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Pros
Dell Technologies
  • It creates a fully redundant connection from multiple controllers that are always up even during updates.
  • Once setup there is little to no adjustments that need to be made to the storage array. All that's needed is volume updates.
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StarWind
  • 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.
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Cons
Dell Technologies
  • Initial configuration are bit difficult need some experience resource to manage it.
  • We faced issue with vendor support during major impact.
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StarWind
  • Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive.
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Support Rating
Dell Technologies
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.
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StarWind
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Dell Technologies
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StarWind
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.
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Return on Investment
Dell Technologies
  • 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
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StarWind
  • 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.
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