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Pros

  • Very easy interaction with their team and good overall experience.

  • Very good, it supports Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors, for small 2 node cluster it is a good solution to maximize high availability.

  • SvSAN - A secure and effective virtual storage solution for cost reduction today.

  • Their customer support is fantastic. The solution is simple and easy to run.

Cons

  • Nothing as such, we didn't face any challenges with storemagic.

  • Lack of built in compression and deduplication.

  • I know that it is a product that is taking shape in terms of its development. But where I see the weakest side is the compatibility it has with external systems which are usually dependent on today.

  • Professional Consultant is needed to work on this due to high impact on failure and complexity of the hardware raids.

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Ilario M.
ICT Infrastructure Manager
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
January 6, 2025

"perfect solution for small VMWare cluster"

Overall: Perfect solution with affordable price that permit the configuration of a small VMWare cluster without a dedicated storage.

Pros: Easy to use and deploy, robust, cost effective.

Cons: Could have a better price moel, large HW compatible.

Erika J.
Head of Global partnership
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
January 5, 2025

"Data encryption "

Overall: It has prevented Data loss via strong encryption.

Pros: I Like their data encryption is higher then I suspected.

Cons: StorMagic svSAN should improve on their AI system

Switched From: Elements
Reasons for Switching to StorMagic SvSAN: Withsecure is relatively expensive compared to this product
Aniruddh G.
Founder
Industrial Automation, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
7/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
January 16, 2025

"Cost effective software"

Overall: Our data team loves using Storemagic as it helps us in reducing downtime, and cost effectiveness

Pros: Simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime

Cons: Nothing as such, we didn't face any challenges with storemagic

Devin G.
Network Engineer
Legal Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 4, 2024

"StorMagic SvSAN"

Overall: StorMagic SvSAN fills the gap of VSAN technology after the Broadcom aquisition of VMware. Their product is very cost-effective and can save an organization lots of money on VMware licensing given their new vSAN licensing model.

Pros: StorMagic SvSAN was very easy to implement in our environment and the support engineer who helped with implementation was top notch. Having a basic understanding of iSCSI will help greatly during the implementation but it is not required as their deployment engineer will guide you through the entire process.

Cons: The management VM is a standard linux deployment it is not proprietary with built-in lock down functionality like other vendors on the market have with different products. This VM also needs to have automatic updates enabled on it via third-party tools in the CLI if security patching is a requirement in your organization.

Alternatives Considered: VMware vSAN
Reasons for Choosing StorMagic SvSAN: The cost of StorMagic was substantially less than VMware vSAN and accomplished the same goal.
David O.
Centro de Datos Híbrido - Servicios Consultivos Bajío
Information Services, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 27, 2024

"svSAN - A secure and effective virtual storage solution for cost reduction today"

Overall: I like the design of the interface (although it is basic at the moment, I think it has a practical, flexible and easy-to-use design). Another thing I really like is that it has all the fundamental properties to virtualize efficiently.

Pros: HA - High availability and business continuity offered by svSAN. It is functional, practical, the process is transparent and mitigates the risks in the event of a Host failure.

Cons: I know that it is a product that is taking shape in terms of its development. But where I see the weakest side is the compatibility it has with external systems which are usually dependent on today.

Martin H.
Head of IT
Chemicals, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 27, 2024

"Efficient Use of local Hard Drives with reliable Software"

Overall: It's efficient, does what it should. Technical Support is directly accessible.

Pros: Easy access to technical support. Small Price. High Quality / Stability of the software. Good UI.

Cons: Professional Consultant is needed to work on this due to high impact on failure and complexity of the hardware raids.

Paul W.
Systems Engineer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 27, 2024

"Great for Edge Datacenters"

Overall: StorMagic's SvSAN solution fills a niche for edge datacenters, esspecially those that are looking for the advantages of HCI but fit comfortable on two host servers.

Pros: One of the features that we like is that the storage can be directly connected from host-to-host, not only making faster storage connectivity available without needing to factor in the switch cost, it eliminates switch network disruptions from affecting your VMs and datastore. Their customer support is fantastic. The solution is simple and easy to run.

Cons: If you are looking for a greater than 2-node clusters, then scaling isn't as seamless.

Gyorgy O.
Principal Solution Architect
Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 5, 2024

"Cost effective alternative instead of VSAN or Storage Spaces"

Overall: Very good, it supports Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors, for small 2 node cluster it is a good solution to maximize high availability.

Pros: It provides a cost effective alternative for SMB sector for server disk based storage protection instead of using VMware vSAN or Hyper-V Storage Spaces.

Cons: Lack of built in compression and deduplication

David B.
IT Specialist
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 23, 2024

"Supporting VMs is my favorite part. Keep going."

Overall: Great data protection with encryption features well designed.

Pros: Before switching, I hardly enjoyed my storage systems. This software is a reliever.

Cons: Configuration requires expertise. Everything else flows as expected.

Knut M.
IT Manager
Wholesale, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 5, 2024

"An cost-effective and efficient vSAN"

Overall: no Problems in the last 3 years - was stable even after an power Outage.

Pros: It is a quite fast solution and the speed can compare to much more expensive physical SAN Solutions. And you need less space an cables in your rack.

Cons: Maybe it is only tradition. But the use on a vSAN in oposite of an physical SAN could maybe less stable in case of desaster. But maybe we need to learn from the furure

Yann D.
Responsable SI
Real Estate, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 11, 2024

"Un produit efficace"

Overall: Avant utilisation d'une solution de syncronisation vSAN d'une autre marque. Malheureusement le produit est arrété. Choix fait vers StorMagic pour le cout et la facilité de mise en oeuvre. Migration vers StorMagic pendant que les gens travaillé, il n'y a eu aucun arret et tout fonctionne parfaitement. En fonctionnement depuis 2ans

Pros: Sécurité dans la gestion du stockage, les 2 esx sont syncronisés. La gestion est automatique.

Cons: j'ai fait faire la syncronisation avec un partenaire de StorMagic

Torlock C.
Head of Development
Computer Hardware, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 4, 2024

"Reduced downtime massively and is very easy to use"

Overall: Simplifing architecture complexity and reducing downtime.

Pros: - Reduced downtime - Easy to use - Easy to setup - Great customer service Only had to talk to customer service once and they solved my query right away, very helpful staff that know their product which is always a massive relief in business critical situations.

Cons: Like all things we'd like it cheaper but can't say the price isn't fair value

Steve W.
Director
Computer Hardware, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: I used a free trial
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 10, 2024

"Would recommend"

Overall: Very easy interaction with their team and good overall experience.

Pros: Ease of use, pricing and customer support.

Cons: To be honest, there was nothing I disliked about Stormagic.

Soumyajit S. avatar
Soumyajit S.
Principal Consultant
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: I used a free trial
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
3.0
Features
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 4, 2024

"One of the VMWARE alternative solution if using basic features of VMWARE"

Pros: Simplicity in the administration and cost of the solution.

Cons: this is a good solution for small customer. For Enterprise customer this may not be a right fit.