We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It comes all in one box."
"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."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"Stability is one of the things we absolutely have to have, because if the HCI is down, our assembly lines are down, and that could potentially lead to our customer being down. If our customer is down, that's $10,000 a minute; and any time the assembly line is down, that could potentially lead to overtime. We don't get to charge one and a half times for something we billed just because you happened to build it on overtime. Any technology we bring in, has to be built for what I call "three in the morning." It can't be built for whenever everybody's in the plant, everybody can watch it, and everybody can babysit. It has to be built for three a.m. when you've got a skeletal staff there, and you just have to know that it's just running. As I stand here, right now, I don't have to check my phone, I don't have to check my email. I know it's running. Period"
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."
"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"The solution is very scalable."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"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."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."
"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."
"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
"The product needs better support for installing the operating system on the machine."
"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
"In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while NetApp HCI [EOL] 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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