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."It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"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 product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"It's quite easy to install."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"It comes all in one box."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
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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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