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."The solution is very stable."
"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."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"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."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"A very flexible solution."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"Flexibility, growth, and expansion are probably the more important features for us. As our environment grows, the more users come on, the more VDI workstations that we need, we can easily expand either horizontally or vertically with the environment"
"We find it easy to deliver this solution."
"When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes"
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"The ability to have an HA cluster in the absence of a shared storage device or SAN."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"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."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"User interface could be improved."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"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."
"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."
"Integration could be better."
"The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"When designing the implementation for vSAN, I have noticed that it requires a minimum of six nodes, and this creates a problem when it comes to maintenance. If, out of the six nodes, I put one node in maintenance mode, then vSAN does not create other VM components."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
"I see room for improvement for vSAN just around general hardware compatibility and expanding that sort of matrix."
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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