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."I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"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."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"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."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"VMware vSAN is a global solution, so we can manage all the storage solutions in one place. It's embedded in VCI solutions."
"The most valuable feature is that it is software-defined storage. Also, being able to do maintenance on the fly is a real benefit: migrating off, updating, and then moving the guest back on to the nodes."
"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 that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"It is more stable now than it was before. It's not like it was in the first year. Now it is stable, and we trust it more."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"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."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"User interface could be improved."
"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."
"It is a costly solution."
"I would love to see vSAN integrate Persistent Memory and NVDIMMs. I know they're supposed to be working on an elastic tier so that we don't have the issues with destaging from the cache to the capacity. Those are the things that I'm interested in."
"It would be much improved if we could somehow integrate a better backup with it. Right now, we're using Veeam and it's okay, but I would like more of a VDP vSAN solution. That would be excellent. The VDP, at least the last time we looked at, it was just not quite there."
"It doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes."
"This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates."
"The updating process could be easier."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"vSAN itself is a great storage platform, but one of the issues with it is that you have to be fully locked into the VMware package to use it. We're going to be deploying 72 Kubernetes nodes, and we're not going to buy VMware licenses for 72 of them, just so they can access vSAN. That's what we're using the Pure for. Opening it up so you could have vSAN as a data store, use it as a data lake, hit it with an NFS, S3 from outside the VMware ecosystem, would be great."
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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