We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN 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 iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The solution has many good features."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"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 some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"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."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The solution is not very stable."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 14th in HCI with 9 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. 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 StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, LINBIT SDS and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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