We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 compression and deduplication ratio."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"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."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"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."
"Product doesn't scale."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"They require more media visibility."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"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."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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