We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"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."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"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."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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 Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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