"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"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."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"It is extremely stable."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"Its performance and availability are most 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."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"A very flexible solution."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"Once you select the size of SimpliVity, it could be risky for you to downsize it because you may need maybe to reimplement some things."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"Product doesn't scale."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"User interface could be improved."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Flexible with numerous applications and good scalability; UI could be improved". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Dell Unity XT and IBM Spectrum Virtualize.
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