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."The flexibility is the most advantageous aspect of the solution. Our system has a very big environment. Due to this, the replication and backup operation is not an easy task. We prefer HPE SimpliVity modules in our environment, even when we have some different cases in operations."
"The solution's technical support was good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Most of the HP products I come across are they are easy to install. That's not very complex."
"We find the deduplication and compression features to be most valuable, as well as that of the backup solution inside."
"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."
"Consolidation and duplications features."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"We use the solution for DDI."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"The tool has shortcomings in its performance monitoring part."
"It could be enhanced by improving the built-in backup solution."
"Perhaps they can work on providing faster allocation of memory or storage."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its management. I would like the tool to add cloud management features so that the system can be accessed anywhere from the cloud."
"There is some scope for improvement in support. The response time could be better."
"Pricing is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"The technical support is weak. It is a layered product. It has a software solution on top of the SimpliVity solution, which is built on top of the hardware of the HPE DL380s. When we call for a problem that we know is related to the DL380, we get a SimpliVity guy trying to solve a SimpliVity problem. If it is not a SimpliVity problem, it's a hardware problem. So, it takes awhile for them to figure out which part of the organization should really be helping us."
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.
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