We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 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."
"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."
"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."
"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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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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