We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The ease of managing this system."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"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."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 14th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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