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"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"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."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"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."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"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."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"The upgrades need improvement."
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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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