We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."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 StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"The setup is very easy."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"I would say data protection and easy management are the most valuable features of the product...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."
"Another good feature is that you can pause the appliance if you want to move it from one location to another and then once it's moved you can resume it, this way you can physically move the whole cluster or storage without any downtime. Its really easy to use, if you have a good foundation in storage and clustering then you will need less then one hour to figure out how to operate it."
"We saw an ROI. We have saved both time and money by using it."
"It is very easy to use and very cost effective."
"They call us when monitoring shows a possible issue and are very flexible in working with our schedule to troubleshoot when it is convenient for us."
"Having instant failover redundancy helps me sleep easier at night."
"The management interface is the most valuable feature for us."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it an attractive option, especially for customers who may not be highly tech-savvy."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"With StarWind Storage Appliance, it would be better to have an overall easier setup with a little bit of configuration changes since, currently, even a small mistake may cause the setup process to go wrong."
"It needs more integration with backup vendors so there is native integration with it that will allow storage level backup/snapshots. I would love to see integration with Veeam and Commvault so it can be recognized by them directly and added as network storage."
"Other solutions, such as StorMagic, offer more flexibility in terms of handling caching and moving data between additional nodes."
"StarWind no longer sells HDDs for primary storage."
"They offered onsite installation, but we chose to do it ourselves. That took longer and was more work for us but saved us a ton of money in the end."
"An improvement would be if they reached out to education customers with other available products."
"The dashboard features are not in the free version."
"They could improve by providing integration with HP."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while StarWind Storage Appliance is ranked 10th in NAS with 9 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Storage Appliance is rated 9.2. 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 Storage Appliance writes "Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas StarWind Storage Appliance is most compared with FreeNAS, StoneFly VSO NAS, VMware vSAN and StorMagic SvSAN.
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