We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"A very flexible solution."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"It is easier to deploy than the traditional SAN."
"IOPS is comparatively best to run VDI solution."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The valuable features of vSAN are that you can get it up and running quickly, you get redundancy built-in, and it's pretty much the perfect solution for a cluster."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"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."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"I would love to see vSAN integrate Persistent Memory and NVDIMMs. I know they're supposed to be working on an elastic tier so that we don't have the issues with destaging from the cache to the capacity. Those are the things that I'm interested in."
"I would have liked it to have been more scalable. It's scalable but not as much as, for example, the ScaleIO systems were or the Kaminario"
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"One thing in vSAN that I would like to improve is using vSAN as a repository for files or other things. For example, with Horizon, maybe we can save profiles with UEM on there. That would be a good feature that I would like."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"The only negative point relates to the licensing. If you want multiple, different servers, it costs money, but you have all the capacity for vSAN. You do not reach the data, but the processor arrays and the current architecture."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library, DataCore SANsymphony and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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