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"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use.""The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management.""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.""HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console.""The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs.""The solution is very stable.""Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage.""The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."

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"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works.""The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."

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Cons
"User interface could be improved.""The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years.""In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product.""The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger.""The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance.""The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options.""I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware.""it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."

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"The reporting mechanisms need improvement.""he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."

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  • "The prices are OK, so we don't have much difficulty selling HPE in Brazil."
  • "One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included."
  • "If you buy a five-year license, not only does the technical support expire after five years, but you also lose the ability to change and expand the VSA, and the systems won't go down."
  • "Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen."
  • "For our organization, I believe the cost is 16,000 Euros for a three-year license. It costs a bit more to do the maintenance on our servers as well. It's also on an HP ProLiant server and an organization will need to do the maintenance there also. I believe the price for that is around 2000 Euros a year."
  • "It costs less than $10,000 for one machine. If it costs more than 15% higher than this, then the customer may change to another solution."
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  • "For a database, on a yearly basis, we pay approximately $3,500 for licensing fees. The solution is sold as a subscription on a yearly basis so there are no other ancillary costs."
  • "If you are cost-sensitive then this solution is not for you."
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    Also Known As
    HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA
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    Overview

    HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.

    IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a software-defined block storage solution designed for rapid deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure for hybrid cloud and delivering consistent service levels to a dynamic workload mix. It is based on proven grid-architecture, enterprise-scale IBM XIV technology. IBM Spectrum Accelerate can be deployed, including as hyper-converged infrastructure, on any x86 server, on pre-installed third-party appliances or on public cloud infrastructure, and is available as a service on IBM Cloud infrastructure.

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    Healthcare Company12%
    Import And Exporter8%
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    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Large Enterprise55%
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    HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 18th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale.

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