We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"A very flexible solution."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language."
"The inclusion of it in the Nutanix Objects Storage platform simplifies my process as I am no longer required to acquire a separate platform. Instead, I can simply purchase additional licenses as needed. All management can be performed from a single unified interface, making it a convenient and streamlined experience."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"The Nutanix block files are the most valuable feature."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"User interface could be improved."
"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."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"From a management side, the one thing I would prefer is if it were a bit less expensive for smaller enterprises. It's a bit costly. If they provided flexible modules where you could pick and choose features, and only pay for what you use, that would be an improvement."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. 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 Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and VAST Data.
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