"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"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."
"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."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"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 compression and deduplication ratio."
"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 solution is scalable."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"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 see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"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."
"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."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"Product doesn't scale."
"The product is expensive."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"Support could be better."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 16th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 2 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 9.0. 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series writes "Stable with good pricing and pretty good technical support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged.
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