We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"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."
"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."
"This is a great product."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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