We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN 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."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The solution is very stable."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution is stable."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"The scalability has been quite good."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"User interface could be improved."
"We would like to see even more storage capacity."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"There's a lot that can be done to segregate. That may be available now in vSAN 7, I suppose, however, the deduplication and compression can be segregated."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 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 and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. VMware vSAN report.
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