HPE SimpliVity Reviews

• Integrated data protection
• Inline deduplication
• Hybrid performance

One customer deployed the OmniCube for a test/dev environment for it's ease of use and performance. Developers can spin up new VM's with no capacity or IO impact, easily without learning a new storage platform. And as for performance, the customer had a VMAX for primary storage, the OmniCube offered similar performance for developers at a fraction of the cost.

The fact that it is compatible with vCenter (VMware) only; however, the company says Hyper-V and KVM are coming shortly.

I am not a user, as an integrator, I've worked in multiple environments with the OmniCube technology.

No, it was very simple.

No issues encountered.

100 VM limit per OmniCube (not sure if its the OmniCube or VMware related).

Customers have moved to SimpliVity for ease of use, consolidation of vendors, reducing cost, improving performance, improve data protection capabilities, and even managing storage at multiple sites.

Feedback has been that it is very simple since it is managed entirely through vCenter.

SimpliVity stays very involved with all installs at this point, minor involvement of vendors from an install perspective.

Varies based on use casesr... VDI, test/dev, production database and apps, etc.

Most comparable would be Nutanix, both solid solutions. Depending on use case, you could go back and forth with which one makes the most sense.

If it's a VDI usere case, how many endpoints on day one, what's your projected growth for the next 5yrs? If it's to replace primary SAN, what is your network today? You do need 10GbE networking.

The use case depends on what our customers need. We don't have SimpliVity on our infrastructure, but we deploy it at the customers' sites. Generally speaking, SimpliVity is for prediction, SAP, and VDI.

There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers. 

SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings. 

I've been using HPE SimpliVity for five years now.

SimpliVity is pretty stable. 

SimpliVity is a good fit for small to medium-sized companies, but it's not scalable enough for large enterprises. 

HPE support is good. 

Our customers usually have VMware infrastructure already, so we can easily migrate everything with the VMware technologies. It typically takes about two to three days maximum. One systems engineer can handle the whole deployment. 

I rate SimpliVity seven out of 10. I would rate it higher if HPE added file services.

We are using it for SAP HANA.

It is a hybrid solution. We updated to the latest version two months back.

Its performance and availability are most valuable.

Technologies are going ahead with new patches and updates, and HPE has to find out a solution to make it more reliable and secure.

Its deployment should be easier.

We have been using HPE SimpliVity for a few years.

We have around 200 users.

Their support is good.

We didn't use any other solution.

It was very difficult. If you want to implement this, you have to hire the most technical consultants.

It took us six to seven months for the entire portfolio, including SAP HANA.

Its licensing is yearly.

I would definitely recommend this solution. It is a good solution, but it needs some improvements.

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

We are using BHPE SimpliVity for hosting infrastructure.

The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V.

The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators.

In a future release, all the management features should be able to access from one location. For example, management of networking and system resources on the server should be in one place to view and manage.

I have been using HPE SimpliVity for approximately two years.

The solution is stable with many high availability features.

HPE SimpliVity is easy to scale. You can simply add resources, for instance, ram, or storage. Additionally, adding another node is possible. It is very easy and straightforward.

We have more than 5,000 people using the solution.

We needed help to integrate some of our older systems to use with HPE SimpliVity and we contacted support. We opened a ticket and they responded within five business days.

We have used Check Point.

The installation difficulty level depends on whose perspective. From a beginner's perspective, it is complex, but for advanced administrators, it is straightforward and not so complicated. 

The infrastructure is easy to deploy.

We used integrators to do the implementation of the solution.

We do not have special servers, only regular ones, the maintenance of the solution is simple.

If we compare the price of HPE SimpliVity with other vendors that are selling the hyper-converged infrastructure, all of them are not cheap and are priced similarly. However, the price we pay and what we receive makes it a good price.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE SimpliVity an eight out of ten.

We are resellers. We change virtual environments and use c7000 plus 3PAR Blades. The repository is for virtual machines.

We have VxRail and are comparing HPE SimpliVity deduplication with that of Vxrail.

Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable. The add-ons are good options.

The customer has 100 virtual machines. We need to offer high availability for their production environment.

We primarily use the solution for hyper-converged purposes.

It's quite simple to work with. I don't have to configure any other storage system.

The solution is scalable.

The initial configuration could be improved. 

The way that it handles the memory could be better.

The initial setup can be quite difficult. 

Technical support needs to be more responsive. 

I've used the solution for a while.

The product is very scalable.

We use the solution for 15 people. 

We are increasing usage. We already bought some systems that are the same as HPE. However, that's due to the fact that our company has a standard of using HPE. If I could, might choose another solution.

Technical support is not so good. We have some issues with the memory and we still don't have answers for that problem.

This was the first hyper-converged system we used, however, we do have some experience with VMware now. 

The initial is quite difficult for me. That's mostly due to the configuration as it is difficult to understand the configuration.

The deployment process took quite a long time. I cannot remember exactly how many days or weeks, however. 

We only need two engineers for deployment and maintenance.

We handled the solution with the help of a partner. 

I can't speak to the licensing costs. I don't have access to that information.

We did look at some other options. I can't speak to the exact brands, however.

I'm a customer.

This is an overall good product. However, they do need to work a little bit on the support. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. 

We have sold about three SimpliVity solutions. They are very small implementations. The use cases are mostly related to virtualization in terms of getting rid of SAN for virtualization and making management easier.

It makes it easy for our customers to manage all virtual machines and different workloads and be agile.

The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable.

It is very quick and easy to use. 

I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party.

We were a partner for HPE for 16 years. So, when they bought SimpliVity, we just started selling the product.

It is very stable.

It is scalable.

I'm not sure about that because I'm not an end-user, but I suppose it is great as other products.

Its initial setup is very easy. For its deployment and maintenance, all three customers have only one engineer.

I'm not a technical guy, but it is very easy. I've heard a few stories that some of the other solutions are not that easy, but our engineers have implemented it very quickly. So, I would advise others to go for it because it is a very easy solution. The backup feature is built into the application. So, you don't need to spend money on the licenses for backup.

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

I am primarily using the product in order to create our open banking solution.

Although it is still early, we are optimistic that it will decrease our management costs and many resource costs due to the fact that everything is included in one box in SimpliVity. That includes the storage network, CPU, memory, et cetera. If everything is in one box, it will likely reduce our managed services cost.

We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers. It's an aspect of the product we use a lot.

Technical support is quite helpful and responsive.

It looks like the solution will help us decrease management costs. It seems to be providing us with good value.

The product is expensive. We are in Turkey and the Turkish Lira currency is higher than in other countries. $1 is about 9 Turkish Lira now. If you buy something in US dollars, and if you calculate it in our currency, that means we need to multiply the total by nine. It's costly.

The initial configuration is complicated. HPE had to help us. 

HPE is complex. 

HPE SimpliVity uses some additional memory inside in order to do site infrastructure work. However, you need to calculate this. You need to make sure you have enough memory and CPU for your purposes now and in the future. However, they don't explain that you might lose, for example, 10% of memory during configuration. Knowing that might affect what you actually need in the long run. They really have to lay out for their customers at the outset what is used and how much space is taken up, et cetera. That way, you can calculate that into your capacity. 

I've only really been using the solution for less than a month. It hasn't been too long just yet.

We haven't yet had a chance to do any benchmark tests on the product. We still have to go through this process. Therefore, it's difficult to gauge stability at this time.

We recently started using the product, and therefore not everyone was on the solution. We're at about 60% uptake now. 

While we may expand in the future, we have not yet tried to scale the solution. It may be something we consider down the line.

We've been in touch with technical support, especially at the outset. We found them to be very helpful and responsive overall. We have been quite satisfied with the level of service they have provided to us. They are quite knowledgeable.

We previously used Intel services and products previously. We decided to switch, and, due to Turkish regulations, we couldn't use a public cloud product. That's why we chose HPE.

The initial setup can be pretty complex, especially in relation to the configuration. It was different from what we used and managed before. As it was a new system and a new way of doing things, we needed help.

We had to get HPE to help us with the initial configuration. We couldn't handle it ourselves.

The pricing is expensive, and even more so due to the fact that we have an unfavorable exchange rate between the Turkish Lira and the American dollar.

I have not seen any other costs over and above the licensing fee itself. 

We're just customers and end-users. We don't have a business relationship with HPE.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.