"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"The installation is complex."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 13th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 3 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 7.6, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Stable with good technical support and the capability to scale". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, Nutanix Acropolis AOS and Rubrik, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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