We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN 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."Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"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."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"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."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 14th in HCI with 9 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. 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 StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, DataCore SANsymphony, Veeam Backup & Replication, Red Hat Ceph Storage and LINBIT SDS. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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