HPE SimpliVity Initial Setup
I would rate the easiness of the initial setup as a nine out of ten. In my experience, deployment time for HPE SimpliVity varies. With the right setup and proper configurations, it can be done in a day. However, if there are complex integrations with insufficient documentation, it can take several days to sort out the intricacies. I believe implementing an "integration as a service" model, where common integrations are pre-configured as consumable plugins, could significantly streamline the process and add considerable value.
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Jeff Slabaugh
Information Technology Manager at Troyer Foods, Inc.
It was almost hands-off to me. SimpliVity did it, but it was just about migrating over the VMs. You temporarily mount your existing VM environment in your new cluster or show it as a separate cluster, and then you just migrate them over. It is all done through the utilities that are built into the VM.
View full review »Initial setup was complex, as they would not let the customer try to deploy the configurations of the units.
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Qais Albeni
Head of technical Follow-up and Development at Greater Amman Municipality
The initial setup was simple because it has a wizard GUI interface that helped to set up the project and set the needed configuration. Additionally, SMS partner was already connected step by step with a vendor. So it was quite easy and simple.
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Arvi Limpadanai
Owner at Simplify IT (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
It is easy to set up the solution.
View full review »The setup required the assistance of professional services. We waited about a week to get on schedule.
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RahulKumar6
Solutions Executive at Tech Data Limited
The initial setup is straightforward. It's simple.
Maintenance is required because it is complex. You are getting your storage, the server, and the networking protocol in one box. It requires a few technical engineers, otherwise, you can manage this product after the installation.
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Yves-Schatzmann
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
Setting up SimpliVity is straightforward. In one day, you can have a complete solution up and running.
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ITTransfa3db
IT architect - Hosting and Cloud at Kraft Heinz
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It is pretty much out-of-the-box. Once Pointnext got the initial connection between all the nodes set, it was pretty straightforward from there. Then, building the ESX farm was a pretty standard build.
View full review »We sometimes face challenges during the initial setup. Once the setup is completed everything is stable. HP has its own customization and deployment process. In theory, it's pretty simple. It's essential to have a properly configured network for successful completion of the deployment. Including the network configuration, implementation can be completed in less than two days. It just requires a certified engineer to complete the installation.
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Julio Flores
IT Manager at Triara
The setup is fine. I haven't heard of the team having any issues with the process. It's my understanding that it is largely straightforward.
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reviewer1658844
Quadria Rouen Agency Director at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The installation is easy and the basic installation takes two days.
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ChiefTecd74f
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The setup was complex to me, but to the integrator and the SimpliVity people, it was routine.
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Scott Howell
IT Director at McInnes Cooper
There were definitely some complexities to the initial setup, as we had to migrate off of our older infrastructure, which was the more complex part. Generally, the SimpliVIty install and migration was pretty straightforward.
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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The initial configuration was somewhat more complex than a conventional setup as the OmniStack controller requires additional configuration.
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Jim Malone
Manager -Information Technology at Carolina Sunrock
The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services. I had no issues.
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Rahul Krishnan
Co-Founder at ThoughtsPro Innovations LLP
The initial setup was complicated for me. It took me a couple of weeks to deploy the solution.
View full review »Setting up SimpliVity is pretty easy. You just have to use the consultants from HPE. They handle the initial installation after you do the maintenance and the preparations. I rate the deployment eight out of 10.
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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup and configuration was reasonably complex and we used our local HPE reseller to assist us.
We have two nodes and it probably took a couple of hours per node to get everything configured and working. Then it was just a matter of migrating our VMs from our old system to the new SimpliVity system.
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Dipak Darade
Asst. Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Cesar Gonzalez
IT Manager at Penoles
The initial setup was complex, because it was a new way of working. It was a disruption of technology. People has to learn the new way of working with the technology.
View full review »The initial setup is very simple; the deployment of the entire system is a one-hour, wizard-guided procedure.
View full review »The setup process is simple and straightforward. it's not overly complex or difficult. I'd rate the process of four out of five for the general ease of deployment.
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groupitm272025
Group IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is a bit complicated. Setting up the networking and other infrastructure can be difficult if you are have not done it before. There are lots of things that you have to take into consideration, and at that time it was quite new to us. The total time it took for everything to work correctly was approximately four days.
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LeadSystff59
Lead Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was pretty straightforward.
View full review »The setup was very easy, but it is hard to deploy. We had problems with training after the setup. We think that we need at least four weeks.
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reviewer948624
Junior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients. Deployment took around fifteen minutes to half an hour.
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reviewer1493745
Assistant Manager - IT & IS at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're just customers. We aren't resellers or consultants.
The initial setup is not straightforward. It's fairly complex.
The deployment didn't take too long, however, It was done in about a week or so.
In terms of recommending the product, it depends on what a company needs and it depends on what they want it for. It's a solution-driven implementation. What didn't really work for me, might work for someone else.
I'm not sure if HPE is very keen on SimpliVity, as I don't really see them promoting this product very much. I'm curious to see if they'll continue with it or not.
Overall, I would rate the solution at a five out of ten.
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Michael Walton
IT Director at Celgene Corporation
Scheduling was a little rough, but other than that, it went okay.
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SeniorEn331d
Senior Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Initially, it was pretty complex for us because we didn't know anything about it. But once we got the hang of everything, it actually became pretty simple.
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Chad Benfield
Director of IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
It was very straightforward. Your part is to provide LAN connectivity, Ipmc and rack them. Implementation team pretty much handled the rest including knowledge transfer.
View full review »It was quite straightforward. Now that I know how to deploy it, it takes less than 30 minutes.
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Daniel Lutz
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH
It is straightforward and easy. It takes one to three days. Our SimpliVity installations are not so big. Therefore, it takes a little bit less time.
We need an engineer or an admin guy from the storage team, and sometimes, we also need a networking guy.
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reviewer1130889
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is easy. Nowadays, it is all very straightforward. There is no rocket science involved. We can do a simple installation.
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reviewer1050924
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup for the solution is more complex than setting up hyper-converged VxRail or vSAN solution in VMware. Dell VxRail is built on VMware technology; the software-based storage is built in VMware, so VxRail is really VMware on Dell hardware. What I feel is simpler with VxRail is setting it up, but also the life-cycle management, upgrades, and things like that.
But SimpliVity has been improved over the years, and they also released a new version on SimpliVity now in December. They have really simplified both the upgrades and the installation. I wouldn't say it's very complex if you know what you're doing, but that's almost always the thing. If you've never done it, of course it could be complicated, but one big problem is that you always need to have a pre-deployed vCenter to set up a SimpliVity solution.
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reviewer952932
Administrador TIC at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is a little bit more complicated. That said, SimpliVity always is installed with certified personnel from the HPE, so it's a question of time. You always have to give them space in the racks for the servers. That's all.
The initial setup is not bad when you use the OCA. The OCA is a configuration utility but you have to know what you're doing or you could easily drive up the end-price for the customer.
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reviewer571683
IT Director at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was almost painless! We had a misconfigured network setting, which the SimpliVity engineer resolved for us at no extra charge.
View full review »Initial setup was more complex for us than for many, as we had to integrate it alongside our legacy equipment and perform a multi-stage transition from legacy gear at our old DC --> legacy/SVT hybrid at old DC --> legacy/SVT hybrid at old DC with SVT at new DC --> SVT at old DC with SVT at new DC --> SVT at new DC. There was some network expansion required, as well as coordinating planned outages in production systems as we migrated from server to server and site to site.
Customers integrating OmniStack at a single datacenter and gradually retiring old equipment will have a more straightforward implementation.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved.
You have to have the environment set up correctly before the installation of SimpliVity, such as vCenter Server and AD. If you have the environment configured then the installation is approximately 45 minutes.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
It will take less than one day to start with a basic three-node cluster.
It is simple to install but it is hard to maintain.
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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was fairly straightforward.
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ITManagec86b
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Initially, the setup was complex for us. Once you know the product, we are planning to do the deployments ourselves now because we understand everything (most of it). We recorded what we needed and can redeploy the systems to a different clusters going forward.
View full review »The initial setup is straightforward. It just runs according to a script.
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Chad Benfield
Director of IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
It is very straightforward to migrate existing VMs into the SimpliVity environment. Just VMotion the servers across and realize the benefits immediately.
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MohammedImran2
FD at Alpha 55
The initial setup is complex. You need experts on that to kick start it, or it would be screwed up.
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Arturo Herrera
IT Manager at Penoles
The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform.
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Engin O
IT Director at Ströer Media AG - Turkey
It was straightforward.
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reviewer583839
IT Systems Architect at Brigham Young University
The initial setup was very simple and easy. We had it up in half a day. We were up and running and migrating our VMs over.
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reviewer583839
IT Systems Architect at Brigham Young University
Initial setup was very easy. We just input IP addresses for each network and the setup wizard took care of everything.
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reviewer1130994
VP Comercial at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Its initial setup is very easy. For its deployment and maintenance, all three customers have only one engineer.
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reviewer759009
General Manager / CTO with 201-500 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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reviewer865827
DATABASE APPLICATION ENGINEER with 1-10 employees
It was kind of complex. There were just a lot of pieces. I wasn't so involved in the networking piece, but it seemed like it was a little bit more complicated.
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Kimsin Phan
Manager, IT Infrastructure at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is complex. It is not easy like other solutions such as Windows Server. You need to have enough knowledge to set up SimpliVity. Your normal staff won't be able to do it. Only someone with experience and knowledge of SimpliVity can set it up. Each phase of deployment took around two hours.
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Daniel Lutz
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH
The initial setup was quite easy.
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KeithBraithwaite
Manager, Corp IT Infrastructure at Domo
It was easy to install.
View full review »not at all. Set up takes a couple of hours, and then it's important to have a guideline about which data replication (data protection) policies you want to have in place. Once they are defined (in a matter of minutes), it's done.
View full review »The setup was complex, networking is not as straightforward. The deployment manager for SimpliVity was, maybe, not in full production, i.e., maybe a step above beta, for at least the version we used. I understand that this is getting addressed with HPE OneView, but I've not seen a OneView product deploy yet.
View full review »Initial setup is easy and can be done by any technician with a basic understanding of VMware.
View full review »I already had a good understanding of VMWare, moving to this solution was probably the most straightforward implementation I have ever done.
View full review »Not really, OmniCubes were deployed in a couple of hours.
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Renaud Schweingruber
Sales Director at MTF DATA AG
Our customers usually have VMware infrastructure already, so we can easily migrate everything with the VMware technologies. It typically takes about two to three days maximum. One systems engineer can handle the whole deployment.
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reviewer1140387
Process Control Senior Supervisor at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial is quite difficult for me. That's mostly due to the configuration as it is difficult to understand the configuration.
The deployment process took quite a long time. I cannot remember exactly how many days or weeks, however.
We only need two engineers for deployment and maintenance.
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reviewer880329
Senior System Administrator with 11-50 employees
The installation difficulty level depends on whose perspective. From a beginner's perspective, it is complex, but for advanced administrators, it is straightforward and not so complicated.
The infrastructure is easy to deploy.
View full review »The initial setup was not extremely easy, so we needed specific skills in order to bring it into production. Once it was up and running, it was ok.
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YogendraSingh
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
It was very difficult. If you want to implement this, you have to hire the most technical consultants.
It took us six to seven months for the entire portfolio, including SAP HANA.
View full review »With the assistance from SimpliVity engineers who were on site for the initial deployment, everything went very smoothly.
View full review »The initial setup was straightforward. Unfortunately, with the deployment services, there was a delay in getting things set up. There's usually a project manager and you have to wait until the gear arrives. The project manager gets involved a week later. After a week, there's a pre-flight. By the time you are up and running, it may be a month from the time you actually had boxes land on the ground.
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Steve Schaaf
VP/Chief Technology Officer at Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd.
Very Straightforward. It was a much easier rollout than expected.
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Edmundo Tapia
Chief of Information Technology at SOFTYS
The setup is very easy.
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presales192366
Presales and Consulting at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The configuration was a bit complex.
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ITAnalysdf70
IT Analyst at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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ITsuper677
IT Supervisor at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It was pretty simple.
View full review »The setup was pretty straightforward. If you can get that design requirement down and you design it right, then you can basically hand it over to their deployment support. It's pretty easy.
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Sami Ventriglia
Software & Services Advisor at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Feedback has been that it is very simple since it is managed entirely through vCenter.
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reviewer887736
Professional ICT at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
The installation with VMware was fine. We are using VMware on this solution, and there are a couple of new features.
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Alexander Paludetto
Support analyst with 5,001-10,000 employees
HPE SimpliVity is easy to implement.
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reviewer1413912
Senior Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
It is a new technology, and the setup is a little complicated. The learning curve is not so high, and you can learn to deploy the product easily in a couple of weeks. You have to get people certified in different technologies of HP before the deployment.
Deployment can take from a couple of weeks to a month and a half. There could also be problems with a customer's infrastructure. In some cases, putting the devices is a whole new project because the customer is not prepared.
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reviewer357684
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The implementation is straightforward when you follow the deployment guide. Stick to the default settings as they work for most setups. If you have the option of having multiple 10Gbps NIC cards, you can explore the option of having a NIC dedicated for storage.
View full review »The initial setup was very simple and easy. We had it up in half a day and we were up, running, and migrating our VMs.
View full review »Setup was very straightforward.
View full review »The initial setup demands you to think through the IP addressing plan. Once you have that in place, initial deployment and configuration is very simple.
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reviewer1045770
Head of ICT Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think the initial setup was easy. It was really fast.
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GogaRuadze
System Administrator at Full House
The initial setup was simple - we had two nodes connected to each other with direct connection to the ports, and that was all.
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reviewer1532436
Chief System & Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The initial setup can be pretty complex, especially in relation to the configuration. It was different from what we used and managed before. As it was a new system and a new way of doing things, we needed help.
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Gustavo Kullak
Senior IT Specialist at Servicios de Consultorias de IT
Initial setup is very simple. It takes one or two days.
View full review »It takes just 20 minutes to have an entire SimpliVity federation to be operative in a production area. There is nothing simpler.
View full review »Initial setup was both straightforward and a little complex. I think they can come up with a better way to automate some of the process for the end user sysadmin.
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Clovis Oliveira
Director at STORAGECORP Tecnologia
We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure.
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NetworkM21e6
Network Manager at a marketing services firm
The initial setup was pretty straightforward. We had help with them doing it.
View full review »It was quite straightforward. We didn't see big problems. It was quite easy. It's easy to manage. It was easy to install also.
I really can't comment on the setup right now, because I was not involved in that. I don't want to say one way or another.
View full review »Lots of work, but straightforward. We basically rebuild all our VM's (from Hyper-V to VMWare).
View full review »Initial setup was very easy. I actually set up the “Federation” myself one Saturday morning with no help from support. I just followed the instructions for the rack and stack, powered up assigned IP addresses to the networks it required and the embedded wizard did the rest.
View full review »The initial setup was fairly simple. SimpliVity offers high-level technical training and the system itself is well documented.
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reviewer1446243
Co-Founder/CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I found the installation straightforward. However, I am not sure about others.
View full review »I did not do the actual install. SimpliVity helped.
View full review »Initial setup was very straightforward. It's almost plug and play! Adding the All Flash node needed a little more effort.
View full review »The setup was very straightforward.
View full review »The initial setup was a bit complex. This was made easier with their deployment guide, and Professional Services group, who handled the deployment.
View full review »Very straightforward but their engineers are needed to install in our VMware environment.
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Eduardo Barrios
Consultor Senior TI at SDTEC
The initial setup was simple.
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Alfousseynou Bomou
Engineer at Platform Technique
The installation is not straightforward. It is quite complex. Even updating it is complex. There are many steps you need to account for. It takes some time to get it done.
It's depend on the plan of the client, however, if there is one cluster only, it can go fast and you can deploy in a few days. However, if you add to an existing cluster, you have to update many things, and this will maybe one week or potentially two weeks.
View full review »I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward.
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Luis Bezerra
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution.
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Producti149a
Production Support Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was straightforward. It was simple to set up. After setting it up, it was easy to manage.
View full review »Setup is pretty straightforward. Everyone tries to say how simple their solutions are to set. Everything is plug-and-play and while they are, there are still little things that you need to know and understand, especially when it comes to the network. It's very easy solution. As a sales guy, I've installed them.
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MunawarKhan
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Its initial setup is a little bit tricky. The actual setup itself takes less time, but it is the planning that takes more time. As HPE claims, an organization can reduce the time drastically and set it up within 30 minutes, but that is a theoretical duration. Practically, it takes longer.
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Shehan Attapattu
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The installation was very straightforward. We didn't find it overly complex. We didn't run into any difficulties in the implementation process.
The deployment was fast and only took about two or three days or so.
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Witit Akkarapreedee
Co-Founder at BIGBOOM ASIA CO.,LTD.
The initial setup was simple. It took one week to deploy.
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Ramon Hernandez
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is easy and it will take five or six hours to deploy.
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Lee Commins
VMware Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases.
View full review »Setup was easy.
View full review »Initial setup was very straightforward with fantastic documentation from the project team.
View full review »Initial setup took a day.
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reviewer1295955
Solutions Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Its setup is straightforward.
View full review »Installation doesn't take a long time, one or two days. Deployment and maintenance can be done by one person.
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Destan YILANCI
Founder & CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
SimpliVity is really easy to setup.
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reviewer1500840
System Engineer (Storage/HCI) at a construction company with 201-500 employees
We've carried out this deployment numerous times so it's not an issue. We're able to carry out the physical implementation in two or three hours. Project management and related work takes about two to three weeks.
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Md. Sabbir Hossain
Customer Service Officer at STBL
The initial setup was straightforward. There were no complications.
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SystemsEng
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
View full review »I was not involved in the initial setup, but I was told that it was very straightforward.
View full review »Initial setup was straightforward.
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reviewer1256322
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It was easy.
View full review »Straightforward, it was set up very fast.
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