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"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"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 features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"Great integration with backup software."
"It is scalable and easy to use."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"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."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"The documentation could be better."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"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."
"Its price could be better."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"We are working with a lot of different technologies and trying to manage them with one tool. The API could be improved for better integration with other systems."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"Its performance can be faster."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"The solution must provide other hypervisors."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
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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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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