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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"The solution is very stable."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"Exalogic offers integration with other engineered systems, which increases the throughput capability and enables processing of bigger and heavier workloads."
"The main benefit of using the solution is for the performance it provides."
"The automation and provisioning of the environment, as well as the centralized monitoring, have all improved over the years."
"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."
"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)."
"Provides high-speed network, strong storage features (ZFS), High Availability out of the box, and is Integrated with a large number of products."
"Scalablility: When we need to upgrade from an eighth-rack to a full-rack, the real downtime is less then an hour."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The documentation could be better."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"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."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"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."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"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."
"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."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is most compared with .
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