"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"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."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"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 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."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"It is easy to set up."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"We were able to set it up via the documentation and only needed their support a handful of times."
"It improved all services running on the new cluster and took up less space and less energy."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"How quickly the StarWind solution replicates also gives us the confidence to know that in the event of catastrophic failure of any piece of hardware, we won't be far behind before things went wrong."
"Live migration between nodes was quick and simple."
"The low cost of this solution has also made a big difference in our budget, which has been very helpful."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"It is a safe, fast, and cost-effective storage system that improved our systems to have zero downtime."
"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."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"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 had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"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."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"Its performance can be faster."
"Once you select the size of SimpliVity, it could be risky for you to downsize it because you may need maybe to reimplement some things."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"I think that the pre-installation questionnaire was a little confusing and ambiguous."
"Updates need improvement."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"The truth is that the operation and support offered is good, but we consider that the product's usability could improve, as well as the data resynchronization time after an unexpected closure."
"The only area that the product could improve would be user training."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in HCI with 60 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 37 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Flexible and easy to set up with excellent support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, NetApp HCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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