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."The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"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."
"They offer top-tier support."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"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 is not very stable."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
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, HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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