We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"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."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Product doesn't scale."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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