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."High Availability is the best feature of product."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution is very stable."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"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."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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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