We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The ease of managing this system."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"A very flexible solution."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"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."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 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". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library.
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