"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"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 allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"It's quite easy to install."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"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 technical support is exceptionally good."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"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."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"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."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Its performance can be faster."
"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."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 14th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 4 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (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 Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, 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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