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."Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"The setup is very easy."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"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."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"Once you select the size of SimpliVity, it could be risky for you to downsize it because you may need maybe to reimplement some things."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
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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