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."It has a proven track record of stability."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 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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