We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity 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."It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"It is a stable solution."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"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 solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"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."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"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 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."
"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."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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