We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN 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)."Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"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 flexibility is most valuable. Being able to manage things quickly if something goes wrong is also valuable. Very recently, we had one node that went down due to a power problem, but there was really no major impact on the systems running on top of it."
"The most valuable features are its performance, simplicity, and synchronicity with vSphere."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"The scalability is very good and the solution is stable and reliable."
"IOPS is comparatively best to run VDI solution."
"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."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"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 only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"he list of hardware supported should be increased in the future."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
"I see room for improvement with vSAN in particularly in the reporting realm. Now, with vSAN 6.7, they're starting to include vRealize Operations components in the vSphere Client, even if you're not a vRealize Operations customer. So, that's really good. It exposes some really low-level reporting. I would like to see more of that. However, you have to be a vRealize Operations customer to obtain that. I would like to see more include of this included in the vSAN licensing."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"The solution could be improved by having more filtered and multiple view volumes instead of a single view."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"It is a memory intensive app."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 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, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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