We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"It comes all in one box."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The ease of managing this system."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"The solution must provide other hypervisors."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"The technical support is weak. It is a layered product. It has a software solution on top of the SimpliVity solution, which is built on top of the hardware of the HPE DL380s. When we call for a problem that we know is related to the DL380, we get a SimpliVity guy trying to solve a SimpliVity problem. If it is not a SimpliVity problem, it's a hardware problem. So, it takes awhile for them to figure out which part of the organization should really be helping us."
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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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