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."Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The setup is very easy."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"The presence of built-in storage saved the company from having to purchase a separate storage array and related network equipment."
"In our experience with StarWind, the support has been by far the most valuable feature."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"Their support team is extremely helpful, and they are pretty friendly and knowledgeable."
"It is a safe, fast, and cost-effective storage system that improved our systems to have zero downtime."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"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."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The web-managed interface (a separate VM) could be better."
"I would request that the terms and conditions be reviewed and made more acceptable to corporate security so that we could finally turn on the proactive support feature, as it is included with our support agreement."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"The monitoring and report software is a bit hit and miss."
"The overall product documentation and knowledgebase articles could use some rewriting and clarification."
"That situation, where Dell EMC servers were going down, has been my only real difficulty... it ended up being something that the wider audience of Dell EMC was actually aware of as an issue. Neither the StarWind technicians nor the Dell EMC technicians were able to actually identify that problem sooner than a week or so... The communication between Dell EMC support and StarWind support, in that particular scenario, left something to be desired, for me. I did express those concerns to StarWind and they were very responsive to that."
"It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind."
"CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local."
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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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