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."The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"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."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"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."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"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."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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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