"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."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"One of the most valuable features is the One-Click Upgrade. When I need to update the system, I do it with one click. This product is amazing because everything is easy to manage, from network management to snapshots."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"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."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"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."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews while Nutanix Acropolis AOS is ranked 1st in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 92 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Acropolis AOS is rated 8.6. 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 Nutanix Acropolis AOS writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Sangfor HCI, whereas Nutanix Acropolis AOS is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Hyper-V. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Nutanix Acropolis AOS report.
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