We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and HPE SimpliVity 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."This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"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 helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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 Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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