We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) offers a significant breadth of features."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The solution is very stable."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"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."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"A very flexible solution."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"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."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"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."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"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."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 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". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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