We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"A company can scale it easily."
"It is extremely stable."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The price was right."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 19th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 55 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Reliable with helpful support and good replication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI.
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