HPE SimpliVity Stability

SantoshRaghuwanshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise architect at Reliance Industries Ltd

I would rate the stability of the solution as an eight out of ten.

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JS
Information Technology Manager at Troyer Foods, Inc.

Its stability is great. When we put our servers in, solid-state arrays were not a thing. The performance five years ago was exponentially high. So, we went with 24 servers, and four of them were solid state. The other 20 were large spinning disks, and obviously, performance is way better today because solid state is more price effective now. So, you get the speed of that, but we're getting ready to replace it with something because SimpliVity has completely stopped supporting their solution on Cisco hardware. I'm now running it without a maintenance contract.

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it_user582870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at loanDepot

We encountered stability issues, we had the wrong model for our environment. Once we got the correct model, everything was very stable.

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Head of technical Follow-up and Development at Greater Amman Municipality

I think the stability is perfect. We deployed the first part one and half years ago, or more. I think we had only one or two cases that needed support, otherwise it's stable and very convenient.

In terms of maintenance for SimpliVity, we have a three year support with the vendor through SMS partner for HPE that covers us until the end of the period. After that, we usually do a reassessment and ask for an estimate for maintenance for the coming years. So at the moment maintenance is handled by HPE and HPE partner (SMS) . 

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

It is a stable solution.

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it_user609492 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director, Infrastructure and Data Integrity at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

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RK
Solutions Executive at Tech Data Limited

For stability, our customers prefer on-premises solutions, but they can also deploy the hybrid cloud, which allows them to instantly transfer from on-premises to the cloud.

This solution is quite stable. We have not found any issues with stability to remote to our customers.

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YS
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

SimpliVity is definitely stable. I'm running infrastructure with six nodes, so it's always the same. It's small but all six are running very well. Maybe if you have 60 or 100, you might have a different point of view, but for me, it's absolutely stable.

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MN
IT architect - Hosting and Cloud at Kraft Heinz

After initial setup, it is okay. We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity.

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PM
Quadria Rouen Agency Director at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

HPE SimpliVity is stable.

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CR
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The stability is very good. It has 100 percent uptime, other than regularly scheduled maintenance.

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SH
IT Director at McInnes Cooper

It is very stable. We have had very limited problems. When we do have problems, it is typically not on the SimpliVIty side of the house, but on the hardware side or VMware side. However, the support is phenomenal at getting all of the right resources on the line together, whether they have to call up VMware or your networking provider, whomever it happens to be, to get to the bottom of the problem.

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DC
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The system has been very stable and trouble-free for the six months that it has been in service and we expect it to remain this way for many years.

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JM
Manager -Information Technology at Carolina Sunrock

Not at this time.

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RK
Co-Founder at ThoughtsPro Innovations LLP

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I faced no issues with stability. 

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DC
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The stability is, for the most part, pretty good. I won't say we haven't had problems.

Our biggest problem has been SSD failures. Over the three years we've had it, we've replaced over half of our SSDs due to drive failures. Of course, it's all been under warranty and therefore it hasn't cost us anything other than a lot of time and headaches. I suspect HPE received a bad batch of SSDs from their SSD vendor and many of them ended up in our system.

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DD
Asst. Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

HPE SimpliVity is definitely a stable solution.

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CG
IT Manager at Penoles

The platform works okay. 

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it_user226710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I did not encounter any stability issues.

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Michael Tsang - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. The performance is very good. 

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RP
Group IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is highly stable.

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

I would consider it stable.

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Raul Borges - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Nuxiba

It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise.

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DS
Junior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The product isn't stable yet, and we are facing a lot of issues. For example, when it comes to integration with multiple applications, it becomes more complex for us to handle, and the security goes wrong.

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RS
Assistant Manager - IT & IS at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is quite stable, however, there's a lot of dependability on VMware. It interfaces a lot with it. Therefore, if there are any changes in VMware, it has to be reflected on SimpliVity as well.

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MW
IT Director at Celgene Corporation

It is too early to tell about stability.

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

It seems pretty stable in regard to the way it's working with the Federation and in the local copies.

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CB
Director of IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
Raphaël Julmy - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecte Infrastructures at IT-Med

It is quite good. It is really stable. We have no issue with performance.

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DL
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH

It is stable.

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LA
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

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DH
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I think the solution is very stable.

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XP
Administrador TIC at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability has been good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

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

We have no problems with SimpliVity. If you configure it well, the product works well, but once you consider the possibility of growing a SimpliVity cluster after one or two years, it's not easy for costumers to understand that the original nodes are not available — you have to buy specific new nodes or whatever is available at that moment. You will lose some space, capabilities, or some benefits with the new nodes — you may need to configure a new cluster and migrate the older one. 

SimpliVity should have the capability to integrate with other clusters in the future. Here in Colombia, our customers try it with just one additional node, but although that additional node could be easy to configure, you still will lose some features and characteristics.

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VC
Systems Engineer at Sempra

The stability is not good. I have fewer than 20 VMs per node. I have nine nodes in my environment, and when it goes south, 20 VMs will go down, even though there's a replica on other nodes. There's a third copy which is a backup and I can't bring any of those online.

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DY
IT Director at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had to update a SimpliVity patch that made the networking compatible with our internal networking.

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

When it comes to virtualization, SimpliVity is based on VMware, and VMware is more stable than other solutions, such as Hyper-V.

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RU
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Now that the technology has been changed, the product stability will always be in doubt.

The more they are integrating and trying to match the flexibility that Nutanix has been providing, and it has become more complex.

The hypervisor is becoming the heart of the solution. It is controlling the complete solution. It is providing you the contour, the storage, and the configuration of the virtual infrastructure.  

This can be problematic when it comes to SimpliVity.

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DC
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

SimpliVity has been very stable. We've had no downtime.

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JP
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

So far, the stability is good. We don't have any issues. Everything is running 24/7.

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

Right now, the stability is good. There has been no degradation of the product.

What has really been affected is our ability to keep our workloads running and playing safely.

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CB
Director of IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

No, not at all.

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MI
FD at Alpha 55

Once you've taken the right course of action, the solution is quite stable, but it should be in the proper hands to maintain.

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AH
IT Manager at Penoles

It is very stable. We have not had any outages.

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IT Director at Ströer Media AG - Turkey

No, it's stable.

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BR
IT Systems Architect at Brigham Young University

Stability has been rock solid. We've put it in. The transition was easy and it stayed up the whole time, with no issues at all.

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BR
IT Systems Architect at Brigham Young University
EL
VP Comercial at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is very stable.

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KK
General Manager / CTO with 201-500 employees

The overall stability and performance is good. We find it to be simple. 

From a technical standpoint, we would say that the product is reliable. As of now, we have experienced only one hard drive failure. The solution is quite stable and we have not experienced issues in this regard. Considering the time we run, we have had zero downtime. 

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KL
DATABASE APPLICATION ENGINEER with 1-10 employees

It is stable. We haven't had any issues.

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KP
Manager, IT Infrastructure at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has good stability.

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DL
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH

I think it's a high stability solution because all the data will be synchronized with all the systems. You can also use some additional services like snapshotting your data and this doesn't add any performance impact. 

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it_user543450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Law Firm
it_user683289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Jackson laboratory

So far, it has been very stable. I've not had any issues as such. I did have some issues with getting the installations to work, but once up and running, it has been stable.

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it_user364671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user572493 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We have not had any stability issues.

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it_user543450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Law Firm
RS
Sales Director at MTF DATA AG

SimpliVity is pretty stable. 

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BB
Senior System Administrator with 11-50 employees

The solution is stable with many high availability features.

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CS
Senior Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It used to be kind of touchy. Now, it is great. I have not touched it in about six months since it doesn't break.

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

I have good a good impression of the stability of this solution.

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AaronSMR - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator with 201-500 employees

The SimpliVity solution has been very reliable and stable for us. A few times over the years where we had errors or hardware issues, they were resolved in a timely manner by SimpliVity support.

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it_user684993 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Data Architect

When it is properly operated and configured, it is very stable.

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SS
VP/Chief Technology Officer at Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd.

No, Very pleased with the stability of the solution.

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ET
Chief of Information Technology at SOFTYS

The solution is very stable.

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

The stability is okay. I'm not that impressed.

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DM
IT Supervisor at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The stability is good. I haven't had any problems with it so far.

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it_user680265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems/Storage Engineer at Banc of California

The stability has been very good, very solid. I used to check on the SAN or the VM on a daily basis, and now I don't. I can work on other projects and worry about other stuff. Their DR is just super simple.

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SV
Software & Services Advisor at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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SJ
Professional ICT at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

HPE SimpliVity has been stable for us in the two years we have been using it.

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AP
Support analyst with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is highly stable. I'm using the cluster deployment, site A and site B as if it was only one site and it is very good for zero downtime.

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MB
Senior Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

It is stable.

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AS
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

No issues. The product has been performing well. No problems.

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it_user713316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Architect at a university

Stability has been rock solid. We've put it in. The transition was easy, and it stayed up the whole time. There have been no issues at all.

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KB
Manager, Corp IT Infrastructure at Domo

Stability has been great so far. I haven't had any issues with stability or even with nodes. It's been great.

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it_user680217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Virtualization at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It is very stable.

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it_user592341 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer/Virtualization Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Overall stability is great, except for some incidental hardware failures with DIMMs and remote access cards. The SimpliVity software and hardware acceleration card has never let us down. As long you use the BOM (bill of material), you are good to go.

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GR
System Administrator at Full House

SimpliVity works well, we have no problems with its stability.

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MK
Chief System & Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We haven't yet had a chance to do any benchmark tests on the product. We still have to go through this process. Therefore, it's difficult to gauge stability at this time.

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GK
Senior IT Specialist at Servicios de Consultorias de IT

The stability is very good. Stability is not a problem.

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it_user335280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at a tech services company

We have a lot of implementations and until now, we never found any issue due to the product itself. Only in one situation we encountered some sort of problem not caused by the OmniCube subsystem. It was due to Dell hardware.

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it_user605250 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not encountered any stability issues at all.

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KB
Network Manager at a marketing services firm

We have only been using it for a little less than a year. So far, it has been good. We haven't had any issues.

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it_user784089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IM Manager

The stability is also okay.

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it_user683262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager with 51-200 employees

From what I've seen, it looks like it's a really stable solution. This is our first one that we're implementing. I believe it's going to do everything we want it to do. As far as how it will be in the real world, we will have wait and see.

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it_user582882 - PeerSpot reviewer
GM IT Operations at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

The only issue we once had (it took us and then engineers a while to figure out) was a heating/airflow problem. This was self inflicted after upgrading the cooling system.

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it_user168297 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues. We were able to migrate all of our legacy environment of physical servers and data over to SimpliVity with no issues. Performance was improved and storage efficiency with the deduplication really works. When we had an Accelerator card fail in one host (the card manages the deduplication tasks for the host), we got an alert the card had failed but never had a service interruption. The card on the other host takes over for the failed card until it is replaced. Very resilient.

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

Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime.

There was no downtime when this solution was acquired by HPE.

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it_user584109 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales & Project Manager at a tech services company

We did not have any issues with stability.

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AL
Co-Founder/CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I believe the solution is stable, I did not see any issues.

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it_user530316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
it_user609312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It's been a little dodgy this year on my CN3000s at Prod when they have lost HA Sync. This has only happened when we've lost Internet connection to our DR site. I'm still trying to understand why this happens. It's quite a pain when this occurs.

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it_user684990 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Tech Consultant for Data Center with 51-200 employees

So far, stability is great.

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it_user322023 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Administrator at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
it_user530316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Very stable so far...

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it_user164979 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

No stability issues.

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EB
Consultor Senior TI at SDTEC

As for the stability of HPE interface, it's a good brand.

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MC
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a very stable product.

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AB
Engineer at Platform Technique

While the implementation is difficult, once you get past that, it's an excellent solution. It's an extremely stable product and very reliable. We have no issues with it once it's up and running. It's not buggy or glitchy. It doesn't crash. It's great.

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

My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use.

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KY
Key Account Manager at BTS Group

HPE SimpliVity is a stable product.

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HL
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

HPE SimpliVity is stable. 

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

The stability is self-managed.

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it_user683259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Stability is good. It's rock solid. If you size them properly, you shouldn't really ever run into issues. We have only run into one workload so far out of all of our customers that doesn't fit correctly with the solution. It was essentially a batch process job that just would require a completely separate SAN and server environment.

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MK
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is stable.

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SA
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our organization has found that the stability of the product is quite good. It's reliable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's been good.

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

It's a stable solution. We have not had any issues with stability.

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RH
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Using SimpliVity improves the stability of the environment.

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it_user603141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

There were minor bugs that were fixed.

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it_user590748 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company

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

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it_user530523 - PeerSpot reviewer
IS Specialist at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
NO
Solutions Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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

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Tomas Sajauka - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer-Consultant at Blue Bridge Bond, UAB

This is a stable solution.

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DY
Founder & CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

HPE SimpliVity is stable enough for our business. We never have a problem.

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CF
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HPE SimpliVity.

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JP
Solution Expert at Frontier Business systems

SimpliVity's performance could be better. It could be more stable. 

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MH
Customer Service Officer at STBL

HPE SimpliVity is a stable solution.

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SK
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It has a proven track record of stability.

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it_user784002 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platforms Engineer
it_user607584 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have not encountered any stability issues.

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CL
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is stable.

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it_user769266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Gerente Comercial at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

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