"They offer top-tier support."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"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."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"The solution is scalable."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"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."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The full suite of redundancy gives a nice sense of security for the whole environment."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"We also opted for 24-hour support monitoring for any issues. They are extremely quick to respond on issues we even cause ourselves such as bumping a network cable."
"The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"The initial setup seems to be very straightforward."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"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 see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"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."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"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 fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"Most meetings are done via Zoom, and I'm sure you could switch to a text based conversation if needed as they seem like a very accommodating team. It's not something I would worry about if you are a potential client."
"The only issue we have seen is with the StarWind Server Manager. We have had to continually reboot the server in order to use it."
"I think some performance metrics would be nice to see, especially on the storage side."
"The web-managed interface (a separate VM) could be better."
"The only area that the product could improve would be user training."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
"Shipping options should be explained in detail and offer more white glove delivery options even if it comes at an additional cost for some SMBs without docks."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 33 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 Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VxRail, VMware vSAN, NetApp HCI and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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