The below reviews are those left by VMware customers who decided to use the SvSAN.

Very cost effective product

Our company deployed this product about 6 months ago. Our storage needs are not high, but we wanted redundant hosts and redundant storage. External SANs are out of our budget limitations and storage needs. VMware EXSi 4.1 is installed on two HP DL380 servers with 2TB of storage each. There was some difficulty installing SvSAN due to the advanced NIC capabilities of the servers (which is expected to be resolved in newer versions), but StorMagic tech support was a lifesaver for the installation. They are fast, friendly, and technically better than the vmware techs I’ve worked with. The SvSAN appliciances have been upgraded once which was a snap to do. In the past 6 months we’ve had no problems at all. Performance is great. We run Exchange and SQL servers that are backed up with a vmware data recovery appliance. vMotion works very well on SvSAN. Having redundant servers and storage is wonderful peace of mind at a very reasonable price. Can’t recommend this product enough.

Fast, Reliable, and affordable iSCSI SAN

Virtualization is all about shared storage and deploying vSphere 4 without a SAN doesn’t really allow you to fully enjoy its features. Unfortunately, SANs are cost prohibitive for most SMBs. But with StorMagic’s SvSAN solution, we were able to leverage the existing direct attached storage in one of our spare ESXi hosts. Naturally, we were concerned about the reliability, stability, and performance of using a virtual appliance. To our surprise, after months of testings, we’ve encountered no issues whatsoever and our own measurements indicated a disk performance very close to the disk array’s native performance (throughout of about 95% of what the same array provided without SvSAN). Very encouraging. I definitely recommend it.

Great way to make use of internal storage

Part of my job is to provide my customers with technology solutions that make the most financial sense even if it doesn’t fit current customer driven standards. One example is how to deploy VMware ESX to small oofices that don’t have expensive SAN or NAS available for use. SvSAN allows customers to leverage the investment in their servers while still utilizing the full feature functionality of DRS, HA, vMotion, and other apps that require shared storage.

StorMagic SvSAN fpr ESX vSphere

Our organization needed to use the advanced functions of ESX 4.0(Vmotion, HA and DRS) but didn’t and detached storage solution (ISCSI or Fibre Channel) due to budget constraints. Stormagic was a very cost effective solution that has given us the ability to use the internal storage on the host (DAS- Direct Attached Storage) as a detached storage. We can move VM’s between different hosts without powering off the VM’s for server maintenance. Stormagic also allows us to put our ESX host in a cluster to provide (HA – High Availability) for host failure and (DRS- Distributed Resource Scheduling ) to help optimize with hardware resources. The Customer Service Support with Stormagic is very responsive and technical support is very knowledgeable.

Visit VMware customer reviews HERE

Visit StorMagic Website HERE

The Storage Awards 2011 have put the SvSan by StorMagic as a finalist in the catagories of “Storage Virtualisation Product of the Year” and  “Virtual SAN Storage Magazine “Value for Money” Award”.

StorMagic Strive to deliver high quality, affordable service to the business community as we believe that business continuity should be available to all.

We appreciate our Customers Support, to show your support click HERE and nominate under these categories

http://www.stormagic.com