We performed a comparison between HPE ConvergedSystem and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."Most of the HP products I come across are they are easy to install. That's not very complex."
"The most valuable features of HPE ConvergedSystem are scalability and resilience."
"The solution's technical support was good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"The user interface, reporting, and management are good, and we are quite happy with the performance."
"Consolidation and duplications features."
"The tool's most valuable features are stability and scalability."
"We use the solution for DDI."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"We can backup with more frequency and minimize RPO and RTO."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"The MTG inside HP could be improved."
"It could be enhanced by improving the built-in backup solution."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its price."
"The solution has a complicated front-end."
"This is an expensive solution."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its management. I would like the tool to add cloud management features so that the system can be accessed anywhere from the cloud."
"Perhaps they can work on providing faster allocation of memory or storage."
"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."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"The product is expensive."
HPE ConvergedSystem is ranked 3rd in Converged Infrastructure with 21 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. HPE ConvergedSystem is rated 8.4, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE ConvergedSystem writes "With good integration and expansion capabilities, the tool also offers good technical support". 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 ConvergedSystem is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, FlexPod XCS, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Dell VxBlock System, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell PowerFlex.
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