We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Veritas Access Appliance 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 seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"A very flexible solution."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It is a very stable program."
"Overall the solution works well."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"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."
"The Veritas support for Access Appliance could improve. They are a pioneer in the industry, and they provide an enterprise-level solution. However, when comparing the storage, they can't compete with the NetBackup solution."
"I would like to see more platforms added."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Veritas Access Appliance is ranked 23rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS). HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Veritas Access Appliance is rated 7.6. 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 Veritas Access Appliance writes "Overall functions well, stable, but technical support could improve". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas Veritas Access Appliance is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veritas Access and LINBIT SDS.
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