We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure 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."In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It's quite easy to install."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"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."
"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."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"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."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the relocating of resources."
"The best thing about the solution is that it combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place. Unlike the traditional three-tier setup, you don't need to buy separate devices for each part. This makes it much easier to control and manage everything in one go without switching between different places for different tasks."
"The pricing of the solution is excellent. It's one of the main reasons a customer chooses Huawei. It's much, much better than VMware."
"The solution is stable and everything is taken care of through the Huawei support center. They ensure everything is running smoothly. It's been very good."
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"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"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."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"Its performance can be faster."
"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 solution currently does not have cloud integration."
"Technical support needs improvement. There's a lot of language barriers."
"t would be helpful if the solution was able to collaborate or integrate with other well-known monitoring tools. Right now, you have to work hard to get it configured. It would be a good selling point for them if they could open up their solution to more integrations."
"Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure could improve the security of the solution. However, we are comfortable using it. Additionally, there could be more information provided for the solution and the interface could be more user-friendly."
"I want the product to be used more efficiently and for our system to connect easily with cloud services like AWS, Oracle, and IBM. We can also improve by adding advanced features like snapshots, replication, and encryption, allowing for more growth. Introducing features such as data duplication, data analytics, and AI-driven insights will improve its deployments."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 reviews while Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is ranked 16th in HCI with 5 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is rated 7.8. 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 Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure writes "Combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure report.
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