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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"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 HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"Systems run solidly."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"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."
"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."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"Its performance can be faster."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"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."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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