We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A company can scale it easily."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"A very flexible solution."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"The deduplication and compression are excellent."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is you do not have to use additional hardware for storage. The operation of VMware vSAN does not take a lot of effort. If you have VMware technology on your site, then it's easy for the operational support of the system."
"It is more stable now than it was before. It's not like it was in the first year. Now it is stable, and we trust it more."
"vSAN is scalable for us. If any additional capacity needs to be included, we just add to the host and configure the vSAN cluster."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"Being able to deploy multiple applications with virtual servers is the most valuable for us. The capacity of the system is quite constant so it's got some of the good features."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"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."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"User interface could be improved."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"Perhaps they could provide encryption without having to use an encryption manager."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"The big thing is pricing, and the rest of it is mostly good. From a scalability point of view, scaling the storage from network or compute should be easier. It is again all around the cost, and it would be good if it was easier to scale your storage separately from your compute."
"The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"I would like to be able to limit IOPS."
"It could be cheaper."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. VMware vSAN report.
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