We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Springpath [EOL] 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."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution is very stable."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"A company can scale it easily."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"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."
"User interface could be improved."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"It is a costly solution."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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