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"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"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."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". 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". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with , whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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