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 failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It comes all in one box."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"Product doesn't scale."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"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 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."
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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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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