We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"Has good performance and ease of use"
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"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."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"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."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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