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"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."
"Great integration with backup software."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"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."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"It is easy to set up."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3.
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