We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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)."I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"A company can scale it easily."
"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."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"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."
"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 costly solution."
"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."
"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."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"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."
"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 main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorMagic SvSAN.
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