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."The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"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."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"The solution's price could be lower, but it holds good value for the money. The VMware licensing costs have skyrocketed since Broadcom's takeover."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"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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