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."In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
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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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