We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The setup is very easy."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"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."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"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."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"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."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"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."
"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."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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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