We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Exalogic [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"It comes all in one box."
"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."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"Enterprise high-speed interoperability: With IPoIB we can deliver to other environments, either IP-Ethernet-based or IP-InfiniBand-based protocol, both with minimum bandwidth capacity of 10Gbps, 20Gbps, or 40Gbps, redundantly."
"Provides high-speed network, strong storage features (ZFS), High Availability out of the box, and is Integrated with a large number of products."
"Server consolidation. In a cloud architecture, moving the HA VM from one to other is faster. This is because of the InfiniBand network fabric between the compute nodes and storage nodes (ZFS Storage)."
"Exalogic offers integration with other engineered systems, which increases the throughput capability and enables processing of bigger and heavier workloads."
"The automation and provisioning of the environment, as well as the centralized monitoring, have all improved over the years."
"The main benefit of using the solution is for the performance it provides."
"Scalablility: When we need to upgrade from an eighth-rack to a full-rack, the real downtime is less then an hour."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"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."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"The solution needs to add a network virtualization feature similar to that of VxRail. If they could implement that, it would be great for the product."
"The solution is prone to disk failures. This needs to improve. Over the past four years we've had to replace about six of them. They've failed almost every three to six months."
"Middleware application services, such as statistics, data mining, could be better."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Oracle Exalogic [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exalogic [EOL] writes "Enables you to control middleware licenses and apps. EMOC needs more attention and simplification". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is most compared with .
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