We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix, VMware, Dell Technologies and others in HCI."Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"This is a great product."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 6th in HCI with 41 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Reliable with helpful support and good replication". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Dell Unity XT and Dell PowerFlex.
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