"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."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"The ability to size the available space in a way that matches our company's needs is most valuable. For instance, you can decide if you want 80/20, 70/30, or 60/40 space. Redundancy depends on your needs without changing the appliance. You just add space and decide the percentage of space that you need free and the percentage of space that you need for backup. It is all automatic, and you don't have to do anything. You just add space, and the system automatically configures itself with the chosen option."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"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."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"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."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
"Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews while NetApp HCI is ranked 17th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 4 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2, while NetApp HCI is rated 6.6. 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 NetApp HCI writes "Crashes continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas NetApp HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. NetApp HCI report.
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