User Reviews of HPE SimpliVity & StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
Updated March 2024
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HPE SimpliVity review
Michael Tsang
Technical Consultant Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Easy to operate with good technical support and great performance
I'd advise potential new users to ask a lot of the standard questions. For example: what are you going to use within the solution? You need to check the expandability as you need to use the same capacity that you are purchasing. You need to understand if you need a small, medium, or large capacity. There are different sizes of hardware. If...
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance review
Carl Marshall
Network Administrator at Winchester Utility System
Offers a failover cluster which combines storage, network, and compute resources...
CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local. It imparts a small performance hit that's easily overshadowed by the performance increase from getting off 1GB ethernet. The Virtual SAN setup also requires more actual storage than a traditional SAN. My two-node cluster means I need double the amount...
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