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"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"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."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"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."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"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 way that it handles the memory could be better."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"The technical support is weak. It is a layered product. It has a software solution on top of the SimpliVity solution, which is built on top of the hardware of the HPE DL380s. When we call for a problem that we know is related to the DL380, we get a SimpliVity guy trying to solve a SimpliVity problem. If it is not a SimpliVity problem, it's a hardware problem. So, it takes awhile for them to figure out which part of the organization should really be helping us."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
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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 Rubrik, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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