HPE SimpliVity Primary Use Case

JS
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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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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AL
Owner at Simplify IT (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

We use it for HCI and backup. 

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Administrador TIC at Cementos Molins

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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YS
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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MN
IT architect - Hosting and Cloud at Kraft Heinz

We use it in our original data centers and large sites.

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Parin Thaker - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Specialist at Dotcad Pvt Ltd

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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JF
IT Manager at Triara

We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery. 

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PM
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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CR
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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SH
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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DC
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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JM
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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RK
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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DC
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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RK
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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DD
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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CG
IT Manager at Penoles

The primary use is to run the business, production, and Oracle.

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SS
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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RP
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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RR
Lead Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're using it to refresh our retail stores.

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Raul Borges - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Nuxiba

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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DS
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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RS
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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MW
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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JB
Senior Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use SimpliVity in our retail stores as a backup solution.

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Raphaël Julmy - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecte Infrastructures at IT-Med

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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DL
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH

Most of the installations are for branch offices that need an integrated solution for backup.

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LA
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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DH
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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SV
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.

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German Infante - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect Data Center Servers and Storage at Tecnologia informatica

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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VC
Systems Engineer at Sempra

We use it in a VMware environment that supports VMs.

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MD
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

HPE SimpliVity is mainly used for virtualized environments.

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RU
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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DC
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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JP
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.

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it_user1130133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Midrange Hardware Standards at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

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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AH
IT Manager at Penoles

We use it for optimization of the platform for the virtualization.

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EL
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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KK
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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KL
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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KP
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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KB
Manager, Corp IT Infrastructure at Domo

We use HPE SimpliVity for general corporate IT applications and to support our DevOps automation software.

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it_user543450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Law Firm

Disaster recovery to a secondary datacenter. In order to do that, all of our server infrastructure runs on Simplivity.

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RS
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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HP
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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BB
Senior System Administrator with 11-50 employees

We are using BHPE SimpliVity for hosting infrastructure.

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CS
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.

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it_user708465 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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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YS
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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PC
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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ET
Chief of Information Technology at SOFTYS

I use the solution for virtualised infraestructure of servers.

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GF
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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LT
IT Analyst at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for storage.

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IP
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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JB
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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SJ
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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AP
Support analyst with 5,001-10,000 employees

I use HPE SimpliVity for the virtual infrastructure of my servers.

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MB
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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AS
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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MZ
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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GR
System Administrator at Full House

My primary use case is virtualization and data storage.

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MK
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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GK
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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CO
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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KB
Network Manager at a marketing services firm

We are in a stretched cluster environment. So far, it has been really good.

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it_user784089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IM Manager

We are hosting virtual machines on it, and it is performing quite well.

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JN
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.

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it_user784044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager ICT at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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AL
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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EB
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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MC
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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AB
Engineer at Platform Technique

I'm a service provider. I install it for my customers. I typically implement it for telecoms.

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it_user784092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

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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KY
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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LB
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are using this solution in Brazil.

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DT
Production Support Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for hosting stuff for clients.

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MK
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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SA
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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WA
Co-Founder at BIGBOOM ASIA CO.,LTD.

We are using this solution for a VDI system.

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RH
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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LC
VMware Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for VDI.

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AD
Senior Visual Compute Engineer at CrowdStrike

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

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NO
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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DY
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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NB
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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JC
Gerente de ingeniería with 11-50 employees

Hyperconvergence.

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JP
Solution Expert at Frontier Business systems

Our main use case for SimpliVity is VDI for Citrix and VMware.

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MH
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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SC
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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SK
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.

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it_user784002 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platforms Engineer

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.

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it_user850320 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure and Technology Consultant at Infinia Solutions

Powerful, unbeatable hyper-converged solution from HPE SimpliVity 380 with OmniStack. 

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it_user818898 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT solution Specilaist with 11-50 employees

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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