We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Red Hat Gluster 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)."It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"A company can scale it easily."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"A very flexible solution."
"The technical support team is excellent."
"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."
"It's very easy to upgrade storage."
"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."
"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 product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."
"The performance of the solution must be improved."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Gluster Storage 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 Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, IBM Spectrum Scale, LizardFS and LINBIT SDS.
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