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 solution is scalable."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"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."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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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