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."The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"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."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"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."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"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."
"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."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"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."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"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."
"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"
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"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 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."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 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, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veeam Backup & Replication and LINBIT SDS. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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