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."There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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 HPE StoreVirtual, 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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