We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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 biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) offers a significant breadth of features."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"Has good performance and ease of use"
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 14th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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