HPE SimpliVity Primary Use Case
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Jeff Slabaugh
Information Technology Manager at Troyer Foods, Inc.
We purchased it about five years ago to replace our existing traditional SAN server VM environment. At that time, SimpliVity was the only platform that could house an enterprise-level SQL database. Nobody else had a platform that could handle SQL transactions without imploding. Everybody has got that figured out by now, and it is understandable.
We are using an older version because we purchased SimpliVity before it was owned by HPE. After about six to eight months of its implementation, it was purchased by HPE. When we purchased it, it was on the Cisco UCS server platform.
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Qais Albeni
Head of technical Follow-up and Development at Greater Amman Municipality
We are using the SimpliVity HCI servers to work as a VDI solution. Mainly it's a VDI solution that is using the HCI nodes.
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Arvi Limpadanai
Owner at Simplify IT (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
We use it for HCI and backup.
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The main reason for the selection was that SimpliVity ensures high availability, and, with the static cluster configuration, we are reasonably protected as we have two nodes with synchronous replication. That's why we feel comfortable enough to use this technology.
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Yves-Schatzmann
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
I work with medium-sized clients who have around 200 users. SimpliVity is a general-purpose solution for all kinds of VMs. With SimpliVity, because we can own the VMware, you can have all VMs of any type of VDI.
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ITTransfa3db
IT architect - Hosting and Cloud at Kraft Heinz
We use it in our original data centers and large sites.
View full review »We use this product when our customers need software protection, built-in backup, and an NDR solution. I'm a solutions specialist.
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Julio Flores
IT Manager at Triara
We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery.
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reviewer1658844
Quadria Rouen Agency Director at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We are using HPE SimpliVity for our organization's backup and recovery solution.
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ChiefTecd74f
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We have a virtualized environment and we use it for backups and disaster recovery and to be able to store all of our data locally and replicate.
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Scott Howell
IT Director at McInnes Cooper
Our primary use case for SimpliVIty was around backup and disaster recovery. We were trying to replace our existing DR service platform, then consolidate our backups from the different solutions, whether that was Veeam on the VMware side, Robocopy for file shares, or Windows Backup or SQL backup for certain applications.
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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We're running more than 40 ESX 6.5 VMs on a two-node SimpliVity system. The SimpliVity nodes are at two different locations and operate in a stretched cluster mode. This provides mirroring of the flash storage in each node. Approximately half of our VMs run on the site on one node and the other half run on the site on two nodes. In the event of a node failure, all VMs will automatically run on the one good node.
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Jim Malone
Manager -Information Technology at Carolina Sunrock
Day-to-day use. We implemented SimpliVity a little over a year ago. I could not be more pleased with the outcome.
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Rahul Krishnan
Co-Founder at ThoughtsPro Innovations LLP
With SimpliVity, we can easily deploy multiple solutions, including storage, and allocate servers as needed. It's quite versatile.
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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We run our 50+ virtual servers on SimpliVity and also use it for backups.
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RahulKumar6
Solutions Executive at Tech Data Limited
We are resellers. We provide HPE products to our customers.
This solution is used with UDI, HCI, the hybrid cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other Microsoft products.
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Dipak Darade
Asst. Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it for servers, like the domain controller, DHCP, print server, file server, and distribution server as well as application servers.
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Cesar Gonzalez
IT Manager at Penoles
The primary use is to run the business, production, and Oracle.
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Steve Schaaf
VP/Chief Technology Officer at Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd.
At FDF Energy Services, IT is an important differentiator. It allows us to maintain a significant competitive advantage in the market. OmniCube is a perfect fit for our infrastructure because it allows us to simultaneously improve our levels of data protection and disaster recovery capabilities, while significantly reducing our costs. The simplification of our IT environment, coupled with the cost savings, allows us to further invest in the applications running our business.
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groupitm272025
Group IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are in the hospitality industry with 10 hotels, and all the systems are on HPE SimpliVity infrastructure. We have our 10 systems on the infrastructure, such as a huge hospitality application, finance, and material control systems.
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LeadSystff59
Lead Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're using it to refresh our retail stores.
View full review »We are using the solution for our customers. We offer CW Kolob, Call Center platform, using HPE SimpliVity to our customers as a SaaS.
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reviewer948624
Junior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
My main use case is hosting in-house applications as well as public applications over the cloud.
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reviewer1493745
Assistant Manager - IT & IS at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is a hyper-converged solution. We are using this for local databases and application settings.
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Michael Walton
IT Director at Celgene Corporation
We are using SimpliVity for VDI and virtual desktops. We are also using it for some small manufacturing sites.
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SeniorEn331d
Senior Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use SimpliVity in our retail stores as a backup solution.
View full review »We are an SIEM integrator. We are working with a lot of products that our clients have, and we are studying products in our clients' production.
It is mostly used for remote sites. It is sometimes also used for production. Its version depends on the customer.
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Daniel Lutz
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH
Most of the installations are for branch offices that need an integrated solution for backup.
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reviewer1130889
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is used for server consolidation and, with SimpliVity and other hyper-converged solutions, we can reduce the footprint and we can give them added benefits, like backup, DR, compression, and deduplication. The main use case for SimpliVity is for backup and cloning, and rapid DR. If you take vSAN, we can say the selling point is server consolidation, and then you can start your STDC journey.
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reviewer1050924
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The main use cases for this solution are consolidation and virtualization.
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SumitVerma
Business Development Head at Fast in Cloud
One of the use cases was that a customer had around 10 servers, which stopped working. The customer wanted to replace all those servers with new ones. I proposed that they should use the SimpliVity solution in place of 10 servers with around 100TB of data in a discrete environment. SimpliVity is an on-premise solution. It's not cloud-based.
We have four customers who deal with HP SimpliVity.
View full review »Typically, our customers use it to try to consolidate their solutions on VMware with multiple virtual machines — almost more than 15 in every case.
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VictorChen
Systems Engineer at Sempra
We use it in a VMware environment that supports VMs.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
HPE SimpliVity is mainly used for virtualized environments.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
SimpliVity is used when a customer is looking to build a private cloud environment.
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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We have about 45 virtual servers running for the company. These include file servers, SQL servers, public safety, GIS, Exchange, and all other applications used by a local government.
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ITManagec86b
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It is for the production virtual environment. I have virtualized almost 99 percent of my servers, and I'm using SimpliVity as a host for those virtual machines.
It does what needs to be done for us. The main thing for us is to make sure that we can recover a failed VM on a different site if the primary site fails. We need to be able to recover on the DR site. The performance was the main focus.
View full review »General purpose fertilization is our primary use case.
This IT solution covers our hardware. We are using it in our VMware virtualization aesthetic to cover all the workloads within our region.
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Arturo Herrera
IT Manager at Penoles
We use it for optimization of the platform for the virtualization.
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reviewer1130994
VP Comercial at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have sold about three SimpliVity solutions. They are very small implementations. The use cases are mostly related to virtualization in terms of getting rid of SAN for virtualization and making management easier.
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reviewer759009
General Manager / CTO with 201-500 employees
We are using the latest update.
Our main use case involves the applying of core applications.
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reviewer865827
DATABASE APPLICATION ENGINEER with 1-10 employees
We use it for financial applications. We are a small organization, so it has all of our servers, financial applications, SQL database, file servers, etc.
I believe we are up to date with the latest version for our hardware specs.
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Kimsin Phan
Manager, IT Infrastructure at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for our production system. We have many production systems.
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KeithBraithwaite
Manager, Corp IT Infrastructure at Domo
We use HPE SimpliVity for general corporate IT applications and to support our DevOps automation software.
View full review »Disaster recovery to a secondary datacenter. In order to do that, all of our server infrastructure runs on Simplivity.
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Renaud Schweingruber
Sales Director at MTF DATA AG
The use case depends on what our customers need. We don't have SimpliVity on our infrastructure, but we deploy it at the customers' sites. Generally speaking, SimpliVity is for prediction, SAP, and VDI.
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reviewer1140387
Process Control Senior Supervisor at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for hyper-converged purposes.
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reviewer880329
Senior System Administrator with 11-50 employees
We are using BHPE SimpliVity for hosting infrastructure.
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SeniorEn1655
Senior Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The primary use case is its an offsite virtualization. It runs all our servers at an offsite office in Brazil. Our main sites are in New York and London. We bought a company in Brazil that had aging hardware, so we replaced that with three nodes of the SimpliVity solution. Since it is small office and it does everything, you don't need to have a SAN nor a fancy network. It is a one stop shop, which was really good for this particular thing.
View full review »Our primary use case for this solution is to offer a combination of computing storage services to remote locations. It operates in our data centers.
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YogendraSingh
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
We are using it for SAP HANA.
It is a hybrid solution. We updated to the latest version two months back.
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Phillip Collins
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at Delta Plastics of the South
Our primary use case for this solution is for our data center.
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Edmundo Tapia
Chief of Information Technology at SOFTYS
I use the solution for virtualised infraestructure of servers.
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presales192366
Presales and Consulting at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We sell SimpliVity to our customers along with all products that can be categorized as hyper-converged infrastructure. I'm a consultant in pre-sales, and we are resellers and distributors.
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ITAnalysdf70
IT Analyst at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for storage.
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Ismael Prieto
Director at ISA
We are resellers. We change virtual environments and use c7000 plus 3PAR Blades. The repository is for virtual machines.
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Justin Brooks
Systems Engineer III at Pitt Ohio Express
We run almost all of our production environment on SimpliVity. This includes Citrix, SQL, file, and production applications.
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reviewer887736
Professional ICT at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
We are using HPE SimpliVity in a water distribution facility and for computer administration backups.
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Alexander Paludetto
Support analyst with 5,001-10,000 employees
I use HPE SimpliVity for the virtual infrastructure of my servers.
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reviewer1413912
Senior Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
We sell HP products. Hyperconvergence with SimpliVity is one of the main products that we are pushing. The virtual application is the main product. It is based on the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), but it is only an application. We sell this infrastructure to our customers and put the virtual application in this infrastructure.
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reviewer357684
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
As a service integrator we have recommended and implemented SimpliVity for numerous use cases but the product is particularly suited for ROBO and VDI use cases. We are looking at SImpliVity as a solution for Tier 2 and some Tier 1 apps in DC.
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reviewer1045770
Head of ICT Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use HPE SimpliVity for my private cloud, and all my production servers are running on this private cloud. My ERP software and the most important system, SAP, is running on HPE SimpliVity. Their metal server is physical, but all the other digital ecosystems or digital platforms are running on my private cloud in SimpliVity HPE.
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GogaRuadze
System Administrator at Full House
My primary use case is virtualization and data storage.
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reviewer1532436
Chief System & Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I am primarily using the product in order to create our open banking solution.
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Gustavo Kullak
Senior IT Specialist at Servicios de Consultorias de IT
Our clients' primary use for HPE SimpliVity has been for general infrastructure, not for any one specific thing. This includes different uses - for the server, SQL, the internal information server, different servers, etc.
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Clovis Oliveira
Director at STORAGECORP Tecnologia
We implemented SimpliVity last year to attend to two client projects. Since the pandemic, we chose this solution to improve the VDI, the virtual desktop for staff.
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NetworkM21e6
Network Manager at a marketing services firm
We are in a stretched cluster environment. So far, it has been really good.
View full review »We are hosting virtual machines on it, and it is performing quite well.
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reviewer899019
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was searching for a high availability system that could replace our traditional SAN and be responsible for computer configuration and backup.
View full review »It is used as a data center solution. We run all our company's workloads on SimpliVity. It has been running for a year now. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly.
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reviewer1446243
Co-Founder/CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
We use the solution for HCM, secondary distribution endpoints, file sharing, domain controller, all many kinds of applications.
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Eduardo Barrios
Consultor Senior TI at SDTEC
A primary use case involves the length of deployment of the product, this year being three or four hours for the customers and two for a small company conducting sales with Veeam Backup, VMware, and Microsoft. It is not only for HPE.
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reviewer1377360
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is used for managing the infrastructure. It is combined with VMware software. We are using HPE SimpliVity Generation 10.
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Alfousseynou Bomou
Engineer at Platform Technique
I'm a service provider. I install it for my customers. I typically implement it for telecoms.
View full review »Our main idea is to use SimpliVity in a robot scenario. To create a robot, recovery assessment tool for our ranked offices.
It is a very interesting platform, because the operation is very easy. It is integrated with the interfaces which we use every day in all of our platforms. We think it could be a huge advantage for us.
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KeremYigit
Key Account Manager at BTS Group
We are a partner of HPE. Our customer are using this solution to solve their auto-commerce infrastructure to give space for the process.
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Luis Bezerra
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We are using this solution in Brazil.
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Producti149a
Production Support Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for hosting stuff for clients.
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MunawarKhan
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I am not an end-user. I am a Solutions Architect, and I design solutions based on SimpliVity. Our F&B clients use it in their companies.
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Shehan Attapattu
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the solution for the virtualization and the hyper-converged solutions in the software backup and recovery as well as the high data reduction rate.
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Witit Akkarapreedee
Co-Founder at BIGBOOM ASIA CO.,LTD.
We are using this solution for a VDI system.
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Ramon Hernandez
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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Lee Commins
VMware Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for VDI.
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Ashis Das
Senior Visual Compute Engineer at CrowdStrike
General IT workloads of core services and standard line of business applications.
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reviewer1295955
Solutions Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
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.
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Destan YILANCI
Founder & CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We are a large enterprise and are partners of HPE. We use the solution for hyperconverged simple usage scenarios.
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reviewer1500840
System Engineer (Storage/HCI) at a construction company with 201-500 employees
This solution is for general purpose utilization. We are partners with HPE and I'm a system engineer.
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Jonny Cabrera
Gerente de ingeniería with 11-50 employees
Hyperconvergence.
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Jinoy P S
Solution Expert at Frontier Business systems
Our main use case for SimpliVity is VDI for Citrix and VMware.
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Md. Sabbir Hossain
Customer Service Officer at STBL
We are selling SimpliVity based on customer requirements which include HCI solutions with a lot of applications.
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StevenChow
Technical Director at Baro International Ltd.
- To build up HCI and upgrade existing VMware farm
- To set up local HA and site DR solution for business
- Fast backup solution
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SystemsEng
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Currently, we are using it for our VMware workstation. We use it to host our non-production servers.
View full review »We use it for a Tentacle system, which we provide to our customers. At the moment, it is not in full release, we have just been testing the following:
- Virtualization
- VMs.
It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected. We have been testing it for three months now.
View full review »Powerful, unbeatable hyper-converged solution from HPE SimpliVity 380 with OmniStack.
View full review »Production servers running on virtualization (such as web, DB, mail, and file), and the report server requires more disk performance to reduce report generation.
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