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."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"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."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"A company can scale it easily."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"It is a costly solution."
"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."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
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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