We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage. It is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
"I have found backup and replication to be useful. We have a 10 megabit line between the data center and our main site. The backup and replication are very good. Additionally, the solution runs on VMware which is a benefit."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Product doesn't scale."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 14th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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