We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A very flexible solution."
"A company can scale it easily."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"User interface could be improved."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"It is a costly solution."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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