We performed a comparison between HPE ConvergedSystem and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."We find the deduplication and compression features to be most valuable, as well as that of the backup solution inside."
"The most valuable features of HPE ConvergedSystem are scalability and resilience."
"The flexibility is the most advantageous aspect of the solution. Our system has a very big environment. Due to this, the replication and backup operation is not an easy task. We prefer HPE SimpliVity modules in our environment, even when we have some different cases in operations."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to restore lost machines. Essentially its high availability capabilities are extremely valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the flexibility and the availability of the machines."
"The storage, BladeSystems, Virtual Connect, and simplicity with hyper-converged solutions are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We use the solution for DDI."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"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."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"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."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"It could be enhanced by improving the built-in backup solution."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its management. I would like the tool to add cloud management features so that the system can be accessed anywhere from the cloud."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would like to see monitoring solutions included, as well as brand support."
"Perhaps they can work on providing faster allocation of memory or storage."
"The tool has shortcomings in its performance monitoring part."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its price."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"It is a costly solution."
HPE ConvergedSystem is ranked 3rd in Converged Infrastructure with 21 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE ConvergedSystem is rated 8.4, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE ConvergedSystem writes "With good integration and expansion capabilities, the tool also offers good technical support". On the other hand, 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". HPE ConvergedSystem is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, Dell VxBlock System and FlexPod XCS, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and DataCore SANsymphony.
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