We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The solution is very stable."
"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 system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"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."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"It is a costly solution."
"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."
"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."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"User interface could be improved."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 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". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony.
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