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)."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."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The solution is very stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"A company can scale it easily."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"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."
"It is a costly solution."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
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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