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."Consolidation and duplications features."
"We use the solution for DDI."
"The user interface, reporting, and management are good, and we are quite happy with the performance."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to restore lost machines. Essentially its high availability capabilities are extremely valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the flexibility and the availability of the machines."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"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."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The MTG inside HP could be improved."
"I would like to see monitoring solutions included, as well as brand support."
"The solution needs to add NFS features."
"The interface is not fully integrated with the ESXi, which is something that could be improved."
"Pricing is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its price."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
HPE ConvergedSystem is ranked 3rd in Converged Infrastructure with 21 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, Dell VxBlock System and FlexPod XCS, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell PowerFlex.
We monitor all Converged Infrastructure reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
