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."The initial setup was straightforward."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The ease of setting up our DR site with SimpliVity. It was very simple. I did not have to set up a separate storage, server, and networking environments."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 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 Rubrik, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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