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."It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"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."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"The solution is very stable."
"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 most valuable feature of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the relocating of resources."
"The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it."
"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 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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"One point for improvement is to increase the performance capabilities of the Windows-based executable as compared to its Linux Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) equivalent."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"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 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."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"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."
"The solution currently does not have cloud integration."
"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."
"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."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 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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