We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and VMware Software Defined Storage 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)."All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"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."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"A very flexible solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer."
"The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware."
"VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption."
"This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"User interface could be improved."
"It is a costly solution."
"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 management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"I'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"
"VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version."
"The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved."
"It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while VMware Software Defined Storage is rated 8.0. 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 VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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