We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"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."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"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."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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