We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"A very flexible solution."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The solution is very stable."
"It is extremely stable."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"It is a costly solution."
"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."
"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."
"User interface could be improved."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"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."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 183 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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