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."The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"The solution has many good features."
"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."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"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."
"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 initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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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