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"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The price was right."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"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."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."
"If we could have just a single pane of glass, where everything can be managed through that one app, rather than have multiple apps, it would be great."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3.
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