We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"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."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The price was right."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"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."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The ease of setting up our DR site with SimpliVity. It was very simple. I did not have to set up a separate storage, server, and networking environments."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"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."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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