HPE SimpliVity Reviews

We are a solution provider and we implement HPE products such as SimpliVity for our customers. I am not a customer and I do not use all of the products that we sell, although I know these solutions. SimpliVity is a product that also we use ourselves. 

The most valuable features are replication and backup.

This solution is very intuitive and flexible.

The vendor was quick to provide support for VMs in the product.

I would like to see support for having different clustered environments for production and testing.

When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly. This is something that should be improved. It should be easier to perform backups.

I have been using HPE SimpliVity for approximately four years.

Using SimpliVity improves the stability of the environment.

The scalability is the best in the market. We have between 10 and 15 users in our organization, and it is installed in the data center.

Technical support is very good and I would rate them a ten out of ten.

The initial setup is easy and it will take five or six hours to deploy.

My advice for anybody who is considering this product is that it is easy to deploy and set up replication for use in a data center. It can be used in production for DLP.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use it for VDI.

It helps us in supplying desktops to users.

The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good.

The scalability is good and simple.

Technical support at HPE has always been really good, with anything I've done with them.

We used Cisco HyperFlex. It was just another system that was brought to our attention by a different reseller. SimpliVity was introduced to us by sales and we needed something like that.

The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases.

We used a reseller and our experience with them was great.

We looked at NetApp but they couldn't do stretch clustering.

Evaluate it.

In terms of rating the solution, I have to go with an eight out of ten. A ten is hard to get from me. There's no perfect system and every system has its little hang-ups and issues.

General IT workloads of core services and standard line of business applications.

Reduced storage footprint of primary and secondary copies of data and WAN replication bandwidth with good performance.

Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely. Less experienced admins can perform storage tasks.

Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes.

• Inline deduplication and compression
• Rapid cloning and provisioning of VMs
• Remote backup functionality
• Easy handling within vSphere client due to the Simplivity plugin

• Standardization of ROBOs

I have used it for two years.

There were minor bugs that were fixed.

There were minor bugs that were fixed.

So far, we have not encountered any issues with scalability.

Customer service is very good; fast reaction time.

Technical support is very good; always solid statements.

We didn't previously use a different solution.

Setup was easy.

A technical engineer from Simplivity implemented it.

Price-performance is good.

Before choosing, we evaluated Nutanix, but didn't like the 3 nodes concept at that time.

Instant file-level restore is the product's most valuable feature.

We have marketing users that tend to save over their files by accident and before SimpliVity, I could not restore a file from 15 minutes ago. Now, I can do that for my users.

I also was able to install a disaster recovery site with this solution and it has given our IT team peace of mind knowing we have full backups offsite.

The production server infrastructure is an area with room for improvement.

I have used it for six months.

No issues with deployment.

We did encounter stability issues at first due to a CPU issue.

No issues with scalability.

Customer service is top-notch.

Technical support went above an beyond to help get our network environment ready for the upgrade.

We had old end-of-life and end-of-support servers.

Initial setup was very straightforward with fantastic documentation from the project team.

An in-house team implemented it.

I recommend a five-year contract, as it will give you the best ROI.

I researched many different options before choosing.

Seamless backup, quick deployment.

SimpliVity requires an arbiter to be installed on a non-virtualized (or at least on non-SimpliVity virtualized) storage. This means you can not totally virtualize your environment on SimpliVity. I would like to see the arbiter on a system that is virtualized and eliminate that external portion.

About a year.

The VAR that helped with deployment did not know that the arbiter could not be virtualized and this lead to problems down the road when installing updates.

No.

I have not scaled it yet.

Good.

Excellent.

I switched from a non-hyperconverged solution. This was less hardware and VMware licensing to manage.

Initial setup took a day.

The VAR was still learning the product. I would rate their level of expertise as low.

I also evaluated Nutanix and Scale.

We are a solution provider. We don't usually use it for our own workload or for ourselves. We are partners of both Dell EMC and HPE. We sell their products and provide solutions based on their products to our end customers.

It is being used in a mining company. I'm currently working with it to upgrade the storage capacity for the load that was sold.

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.

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.

Its scalability should be improved. We should be able to add drives without disrupting the services.

We have known this product for the last three years or more, but we first sold it to a customer in 2020 or 2021.

I don't have first-hand experience in managing it day to day. So, I don't know if there are any lapses somewhere.

We are currently working on upgrading the storage capacity for a customer from medium to large. The solution is scalable, but they have to work more on the scalability part. That's because you can scale out and scale up, but based on my experience with this customer, scaling up is going to be disruptive. It's going to disrupt their service because the storage has got into a place where they cannot just add the storage node to it without disrupting the service. They have to look at that angle. When you're adding drives, it should be able to just load the drives, do the recalculation, and just work without disrupting your service.

I would rate them an eight out of 10.

Its setup is straightforward.

It is a great solution coming from a pioneer in technology. If you want to go for it, you can go for it, but you have to be sure that this is what you want. 

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

The product's installation process could be made easier.

I have been working with this solution for two to three years.

This is a stable solution.

This product doesn't scale - it's for small environments with two or three nodes, no more.

Tech support is ok.

Installation doesn't take a long time, one or two days. Deployment and maintenance can be done by one person.

The cost of this product is high, so some customers may be better off building their own system or buying their own servers and set of devices.

This solution is best for companies just starting out or who are working with a small environment and are looking for a small infrastructure. Those intending to install SimpliVity should have vCenter integrated somewhere beforehand. I would give this solution a score of eight out of ten.