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."You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"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."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"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."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
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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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