We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"It's quite easy to install."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"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 seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The documentation could be better."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"The solution's price could be lower, but it holds good value for the money. The VMware licensing costs have skyrocketed since Broadcom's takeover."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"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"
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"It is a costly solution."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual 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 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". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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