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."The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The ease of managing this system."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"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 seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"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."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"User interface could be improved."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"It is a costly solution."
"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."
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, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony.
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