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."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"A very flexible solution."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"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."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"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 is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"User interface could be improved."
"It is a costly solution."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
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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