"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"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 most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"This solution is very costly."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"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 initial setup is not that easy."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 14th in HCI with 5 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in HCI with 60 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 9.6, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes "High performance that gives an advantage over traditional virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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