We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"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 product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"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."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"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."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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