We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"The solution is very stable."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"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."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"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."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"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."
"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 management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"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."
"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."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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