We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"A company can scale it easily."
"A very flexible solution."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"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."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"The solution must provide other hypervisors."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"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."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual 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 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". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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