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Cohesity C4000 Series vs HPE SimpliVity comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity C4000 Series
Ranking in HCI
31st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE SimpliVity
Ranking in HCI
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
153
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Cohesity C4000 Series is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE SimpliVity is 9.1%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

reviewer1336899 - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud
It has provided superior backups and protection from ransomware I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable. The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved. I have worked with it for two years. Its stability…
Xavier Perez - PeerSpot reviewer
Has a deployment phase that is straightforward but needs improvement in the area of scalability
The main issue with HPE SimpliVity is that you are very attached to VMware or VMware dependencies because the tool works with VMware technology. HPE SimpliVity is an add-on from VMware. Nowadays, my company has a lot of concerns about VMware's licensing policy. Another big concern of the tool is related to security because one has to continuously update patch vulnerabilities that are appearing continuously in VMware's different versions. Actually, the foundation of all the architecture is VMware and that is one of the main issues with the tool. My company is analyzing our virtual infrastructure strategy to see if we can move to Nutanix because maybe it may work better and might have another approach. Nutanix is absolutely independent of VMware. I could add that since HPE SimpliVity is very precisely dependent on VMware, it is not open to containers unlike Nutanix, for example. The aforementioned area is a concern that needs to be resolved by HPE.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
 

Cons

"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"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."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"​I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads.​"
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"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"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is on a per case basis."
"For three years, it is $60,000 for three nodes. It is quite pricey."
"Licensing costs are on a monthly basis. There are additional costs."
"The solution is affordable and quite reasonably priced in terms of the product one gets."
"The pricing is very high."
"The time savings on the administration side of things is huge. We had somebody who was dedicated pretty much full-time to hardware, and now, they spend about a quarter of their time a year on hardware-related issues."
"The pricing of HPE SimpliVity is comparable with other solutions so the price is good."
"There is a one-time purchase needed for the license for HPE SimpliVity. The solution is expensive, but it is worth the money."
"I think it's a complete package. We buy the license with support for five years. It's a subscription, I will say, but it's included when you buy the SimpliVity solution from HPE. You have a contract with the software warranty and upgrades."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
61%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
4%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

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How does HPE Simplivity compare with VMware vSAN?
HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that is primarily geared to mid-sized companies. We researched VMware vSAN but found HPE was a better option for us. HPE SimpliVity has ...
What do you like most about HPE SimpliVity?
The solution's technical support is good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE SimpliVity?
The price is almost equal to VMware vSAN, making it not much cost saving. However, the time-saving during upgrades is notable.
 

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Also Known As

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SimpliVity, HPE HCI
 

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