We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage. It is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"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."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"Its performance can be faster."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 13th in HCI with 9 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, DataCore SANsymphony, LINBIT SDS, Veeam Backup & Replication and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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