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."StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The ease of managing this system."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"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 solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The documentation could be better."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"The product is expensive."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"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."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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