We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"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.""
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"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."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"The product is expensive."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 23rd in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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