We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"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."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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