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)."Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"A very flexible solution."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"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"
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"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."
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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