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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"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 built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"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."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"I have not seen ROI."
"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."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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 Rubrik.
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