We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) offers a significant breadth of features."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The ease of managing this system."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"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."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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