Scality ARTESCA vs. StarWind SAN & NAS

When high availability and keeping sensitive information safe are top priority Scality is a great option and has good features that make it ideal for these type of applications. For small companies with limited resources to administer extensive systems Scality would not be a good match. It takes people dedicated to this platform to keep it functioning at its best.

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For companies wanting a lean 2 node HC cluster Starwind VSAN is the way to go. Performance, ease of setup, reliability, and management are very good. However, If companies have more than 2 node-setups Starwind isn't the best option as it only does mirrors. Having more than 2 nodes essentially means wasting 2/3 of storage capacity. If StarWind can add distributed raids in future releases that would be perfect

• It has a good evolutionary trend to stay alongside AWS as a leader.
• The web-based Supervisor GUI and Grafana statistics allow you to drill down into historical data in many ways.
• Easy for the end user to use.
• The system works so well that we now use it for scalable file system storage and disk-to-disk backups.

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• mirroring internal disks and flash between hypervisor servers.
• Creates powerful environment at low cost.
• Allows maintenance in zero down time.

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• From my limited experience, I have not seen anything that needs to be improved. I have found the product to be easy to use.

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• Documentation could be little better
• Have a distributed raid option

As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.

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I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.

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In reality, it did not become a substitute for AWS, since it allowed us to maintain a much more compact and rigid system by taking advantage of the support and evolutionary trend that Scality has and keeping AWS as a leader.

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Overall the combination is really doing great and helping the business to perform smoothly. The main reason behind selecting StarWind is, It's budget-friendly, has good support and it's great product functionalities.

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• We have had a positive ROI.

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• Even though we have had one host disk failure on one of the cluster nodes, there was no interruption to our users. The server was repaired and the StarWind SAN & NAS made the transition very simple.
• There has been zero downtime since the StarWind SAN & NAS was implemented.,

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