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Pros
"The solution is very stable.""Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI.""It appears to be very stable and very robust.""I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use.""Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives.""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.""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."

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"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us.""Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier.""The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run.""The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync.""The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems.""StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability.""We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer.""Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."

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Cons
"Product looks like it is in the end of development.""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.""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.""The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users.""it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products.""The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger.""The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years.""Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."

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"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons.""The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent.""The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc.""While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation.""There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa.""I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management.""The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application.""Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great."
  • "We are happy with the price."
  • "The license is reusable. We can always rebuild it and apply the license. Then, boom, we get new servers, apply the license, and we're back up and running."
  • "The pricing is fine for the work that it does."
  • "When we did all the analysis for StarWind, it was approximately 20 percent less than any of the other solutions that we looked at."
  • "The scalability limitation for us is its licensing. At some point in the fairly near future, we will probably have to upgrade our license so we can store eight terabytes instead of four. We are currently at four terabytes, but we're starting to knock on the door of that capacity."
  • "The pricing is excellent. It will run on anything. You don't have to buy a $100,000 server, with hardware you don't need. You just pay for the license and you're good to go."
  • "The licensing is a bit weird. If you license the standard version of StarWind, it allows you four terabytes. Then, they have a pro version, but with the pro version, the only difference is it doubles the terabytes to eight."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:According to HPE, they say that they will stop making updates from maybe next year or something The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated. We need the solution to offer support for newer… more »
    Top Answer:We have several customers and we have StoreVirtual on several StoreVirtual deployments.
    Top Answer:It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool”… more »
    Top Answer:The cost of this is less than you expect. Since they're selling a software stack, you do need to consider your own hardware costs.
    Top Answer:You can maintain and update it with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost-effective point… more »
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    Also Known As
    HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA
    StarWind SAN & NAS
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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.

    StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

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    NBrIX, WIND Telecom, Netrics
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    Top Industries
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    Healthcare Company12%
    Import And Exporter8%
    Retailer8%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Manufacturing Company10%
    Construction Company8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Small Business64%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
    Buyer's Guide
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    March 2024
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    HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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