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."Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"I have found backup and replication to be useful. We have a 10 megabit line between the data center and our main site. The backup and replication are very good. Additionally, the solution runs on VMware which is a benefit."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"They require more media visibility."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
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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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