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."Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"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."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"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."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 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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