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 creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"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 support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"Its performance and availability are most 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."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"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 documentation can be better for the free tier."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"This solution is very costly."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
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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