We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"A very flexible solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS 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."
"User interface could be improved."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"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."
"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 StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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