We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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."Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key 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."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"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."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"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."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"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 Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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