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"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."

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"It is a very stable program.""Overall the solution works well."

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"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."

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"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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  • "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 solution is not expensive compared to other storage solutions."
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    Also Known As
    HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA
    Access 3340 Appliance, Veritas Access 3340 Appliance
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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.

    The Veritas Access Appliance enables a turnkey deployment of Veritas’ software-defined Access scale-out network attached storage - a storage solution optimized for unstructured data use cases. The appliance is cost-optimized and tuned for high-capacity workloads like long-term retention (LTR), tape replacement and backup archiving.

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    NBrIX, WIND Telecom, Netrics
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    Healthcare Company12%
    Import And Exporter8%
    Retailer8%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise55%
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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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