We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The most valuable aspect of StarWind is the all-in-one solution that they provide."
"Their service is top-notch and if a node goes down they immediately are following up with us to make sure that everything is working smoothly."
"We were able to set it up via the documentation and only needed their support a handful of times."
"Live migration between nodes was quick and simple."
"The option to deploy a hyper-converged system without an expensive storage switch was a benefit."
"The initial setup is straightforward once you know what you're doing."
"The support is the most valuable feature. The support has been amazing. It's around the clock. One of our hard disks accidentally ejected without me knowing or being onsite. They called and told me about it before I had a chance to see it myself."
"Reliability and overall uptime are key as we're also hosting client environments in addition to our own."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"The documentation could be better."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"Most meetings are done via Zoom, and I'm sure you could switch to a text based conversation if needed as they seem like a very accommodating team. It's not something I would worry about if you are a potential client."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"A desired feature or service is the ability to have a hardware subscription plan that ensures routine hardware updates in conjunction with the hyper-converged software."
"The only critique I might have is that the support is overseas in Eastern Europe and, on occasion, there has been a language issue. But in general, they're as good as can be..."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"The only issue we have had was the issue of performance, however, that is only due to the fact that we purchased a mix of SSD and regular spindle drives, and restoring databases was slow as it was trying to restore the database using the spindle drives."
"A possible thing is perhaps a customer portal to schedule a time with support online via a calendar."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex and VxRail. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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