"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
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Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 4 reviews while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 27th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 1 review. Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 7.2, while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes writes "A unified support structure is an important asset; manual upgrades should be automated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Dell EMC Vscale Architecture.
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