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."The user interface, reporting, and management are good, and we are quite happy with the performance."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"The most valuable features of HPE ConvergedSystem are scalability and resilience."
"Most of the HP products I come across are they are easy to install. That's not very complex."
"This is a scalable solution. Our customers begin with an initial configuration and later add more servers, memory and other options to meet the demands of increased processing."
"The tool's most valuable features are stability and scalability."
"We find the deduplication and compression features to be most valuable, as well as that of the backup solution inside."
"The storage, BladeSystems, Virtual Connect, and simplicity with hyper-converged solutions are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"The setup is very easy."
"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."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its price."
"The interface is not fully integrated with the ESXi, which is something that could be improved."
"It could be enhanced by improving the built-in backup solution."
"There is some scope for improvement in support. The response time could be better."
"Perhaps they can work on providing faster allocation of memory or storage."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"The tool has shortcomings in its performance monitoring part."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
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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