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."The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The setup is very easy."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"They require more media visibility."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"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."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
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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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