We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"It is a stable solution."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 14th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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