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."The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"It is extremely stable."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"It's quite easy to install."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"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."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"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."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"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."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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