We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"The main thing is its performance. In terms of performance, it is a lot better than VMware. Obviously, technology is changing a lot all the time. We were on just VMware with a separate attached array. The performance was kind of a step backward from just running separate servers. Now, the performance is much better, and we can take snapshots and backups of really big servers in just a matter of seconds. We can even restore them in a matter of seconds."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The setup is very easy."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"It's quite easy to install."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It is extremely stable."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"Its performance can be faster."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"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."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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