"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"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."
"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."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"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."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"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."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"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."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"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."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"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."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"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."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"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."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews while NetApp HCI is ranked 18th 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 HPE StoreVirtual, whereas NetApp HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. NetApp HCI report.
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