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"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"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."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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 Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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