We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"A very flexible solution."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"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."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"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."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
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. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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