We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"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 rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"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."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"I have not seen ROI."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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