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."The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"A company can scale it easily."
"A very flexible solution."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"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."
"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."
"User interface could be improved."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"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."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The documentation could be better."
"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."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
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 183 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, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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