We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"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."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"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."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"Product doesn't scale."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"The line migration is a problem."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. 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 Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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