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"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"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."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"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."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"This is a great product."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"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."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library.
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