"It's quite easy to manage."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"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."
"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."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Very good in-line compression."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"It's a good product based on the features. You can upgrade the solution with only one click."
"I like that there is a dependency on the storage controller."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"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."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"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."
"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."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The technical support is good but could be better."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"It would be nice if the update process was shortened and that patching would be simpler."
"The licensing needs to be improved upon."
"One area of the product that could be improved is the support."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"My customers want more storage for university databases."
"VxRail is a closed system with an out-of-the -box solution approach, it has basic 3 layers, Hardware, Network, Storage, Software, (Virtualizing) Applications. Release notes and improvement tips, patches from the back office, the business units, should be frequent and up to the patches which are coming from different vendors as far as the operating system application and also the technology itself is concerned."
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HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is ranked 9th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 10 reviews while VxRail is ranked 3rd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 84 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is rated 8.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI writes "Provides the flexibility needed to scale storage and compute independently". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Good automation makes this solution practical". HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Dell PowerFlex and NetApp HCI. See our HPE Nimble Storage dHCI vs. VxRail report.
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