"It's quite easy to install."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"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."
"It is extremely stable."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"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 most valuable feature is high availability."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"It is easy to set up."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"A very flexible solution."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"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."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"User interface could be improved."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in 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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