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."It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"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."
"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."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"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."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"The solution is very stable."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"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."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"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."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"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."
"It is a costly solution."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
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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