We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"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."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"It is a costly solution."
"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."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
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 182 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, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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