We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN 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."It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"A company can scale it easily."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"A very flexible solution."
"We find it easy to deliver this solution."
"vSAN is easy for deploying and maintenance, so some customers can do service themselves."
"vSAN is one of the easiest implementations of any VMware product. It's almost like click it to enable it, then you're almost done."
"I like that we could choose whatever hardware we wanted, rather than having to use one particular vendor."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"I like vSAN because they release features incrementally, every year, and you don't have to upgrade your hardware to get those features. If you bought a traditional SAN, you would have to upgrade your hardware constantly, every three years: You would get it, and it is how it is for three years. But on vSAN, you upgrade when you have to, when your hardware gets old or when you need more capacity. It's great, you get new features constantly."
"vSAN Health is a feature designed to monitor the health and performance of the vSAN environment. It's crucial for us and our customers to frequently check on this to ensure everything is operating smoothly."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"It is a costly solution."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"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."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"The solution must provide better customization."
"There's already a concern with VMware with ransomware and security issues. VMware could focus on improving security."
"The price can be reduced. Small businesses cannot afford this solution."
"The solution could be improved by having more filtered and multiple view volumes instead of a single view."
"I would like to see it be more hardware-agnostic. Other than that, the only other complication is - and it has gotten better with the newer versions - that lately, once you're running an all-flash, if you need to grow or scale down your infrastructure, it's a long process. You need to evacuate all data and make sure you have enough space on the host, then add more hosts or take out hosts. That process is a little bit complex. You cannot scale as needed or shrink as needed."
"When we talk about improvements for vSAN, there is some way to go from a at least stability perspective. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level that most of the features you need in production are there."
"There needs to be an increase in the supported memory and hard disk space, as it is an area where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. VMware vSAN report.
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