We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"It is easy to set up."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"I have found backup and replication to be useful. We have a 10 megabit line between the data center and our main site. The backup and replication are very good. Additionally, the solution runs on VMware which is a benefit."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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