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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."They offer top-tier support."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"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."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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 lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"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."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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