We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The solution is very stable."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the redundancy and its cost. I used to have a SAN, a Dell EMC EqualLogic. Unfortunately, it was they call an "inverted pyramid of doom." It was two or three hosts, two switches, and one storage array at the very bottom. But the SAN, the storage array at the very bottom, is a single point of failure..."
"With StarWind's Proactive monitoring we can go about our day helping our customers and not have to worry about our cluster's health."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"The full suite of redundancy gives a nice sense of security for the whole environment."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"How quickly the StarWind solution replicates also gives us the confidence to know that in the event of catastrophic failure of any piece of hardware, we won't be far behind before things went wrong."
"The most valuable aspect of StarWind is the all-in-one solution that they provide."
"The initial setup seems to be very straightforward."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"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."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The only issues are when Hyper V itself has limitations and I'd love to see support or enhancement in the area of direct-attached GPU cards."
"Updates need improvement."
"At the moment, the initial configuration is very technical and error-prone. That is the reason Starwind does it for you as a service, which is a great thing. But it would be nice if we could change or rearrange storage assignments ourselves."
"The overall product documentation and knowledgebase articles could use some rewriting and clarification."
"A possible thing is perhaps a customer portal to schedule a time with support online via a calendar."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"The only critique I might have is that the support is overseas in Eastern Europe and, on occasion, there has been a language issue. But in general, they're as good as can be..."
"The only issue we have had was the issue of performance, however, that is only due to the fact that we purchased a mix of SSD and regular spindle drives, and restoring databases was slow as it was trying to restore the database using the spindle drives."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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 HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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