We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The ease of managing this system."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"I have not seen ROI."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with , whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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