We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The solution is stable."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"Administrators are very comfortable with the functionality and services OpenStack offers."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"The line migration is a problem."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"It should have a single dashboard for cloud management and on-premises systems"
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 10 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 8.0. 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 Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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