User Reviews of HPE SimpliVity & StarWind Virtual Tape Library

Updated April 2025

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HPE SimpliVity review

Xavier Perez
Xavier Perez
Administrador TIC at Cementos Molins
Has a deployment phase that is straightforward but needs improvement in the area...
The main issue with HPE SimpliVity is that you are very attached to VMware or VMware dependencies because the tool works with VMware technology. HPE SimpliVity is an add-on from VMware. Nowadays, my company has a lot of concerns about VMware's licensing policy. Another big concern of the tool is related to security because one has to...
StarWind Virtual Tape Library review

reviewer1414572
DevOps Director at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Flexible and reliable with helpful support
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. Who would not like things to be faster? It would be nice if StarWind could come up with a best practice document for configuration. I had to do some playing around in my environment with test runs...

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