HPE SimpliVity Reviews

The rapid backup and restore functionality improved our efficiency in the development area.

We no have the ability to restore a production environment to multiple development environments with a few clicks in a very short time. With 6 development teams working on different modules on the same system, this helps a lot in their agile approach.

One thing that might be a deal killer is the additional VM Ware licenses. It is important to keep this in mind, especially when moving over from free hypervisor like Hyper-V.

This would be applicable if users migrate from a free Hypervisor like Hyper-V. With Simplivity not yet supporting these, one has to procure the VMWare licenses. As this cost is in US$, it can become very pricey, especially for clients in South Africa!

So again, it is just something people need to be aware of if they are not already using VMWare.

18 months.

None.

The only issue we once had (it took us and then engineers a while to figure out) was a heating/airflow problem. This was self inflicted after upgrading the cooling system.

None. We started with two, got another one, and then another three. Deployment and expansion was a breeze.

Excellent. Local sales team always available and involved.

Also excellent. Always helpful and available during upgrades or maintenance windows.

Had a traditional Server/SAN setup. Upgrading that turned out to be more expensive than moving over to the new solution.

Lots of work, but straightforward. We basically rebuild all our VM's (from Hyper-V to VMWare).

We made use of the local team. Very skilled!

One must make sure that you understand all the functionality that comes with the solution, and then try to establish the cost of not having these in place!

Yes. Looked at expanding the old solution, and also looked at Nutanix.

Apart from being a great product supported by a very skilled and friendly team, it is very sexy, and will give you lots of bragging rights!

We are a large enterprise and are partners of HPE. We use the solution for hyperconverged simple usage scenarios.

HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly.  Our customers like to use this product.

The solution could have an optimization site and provide assistance at that site. HPE SimpliVity would also benefit if it installed bigger products like having a Blade solution.

I have been using SimpliVity for over five years.

HPE SimpliVity is stable enough for our business. We never have a problem.

The solution is scalable if you size the requirement of your client at the first stage, otherwise scalability is difficult.

SimpliVity is really easy to setup.

The pricing of HPE SimpliVity is comparable with other solutions so the price is good.

For hyperconverged, HPE SimpliVity is the right choice. 

I would rate this solution a 9 out of 10.

I use HPE SimpliVity for the virtual infrastructure of my servers.

The solution has integrated backup features that are useful.

There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well.

I have been using HPE SimpliVity for approximately one year.

The solution is highly stable. I'm using the cluster deployment, site A and site B as if it was only one site and it is very good for zero downtime.

The solution is scalable, I only need to add new nodes to expand.

The support from HPE is very good, they are helpful.

HPE SimpliVity is easy to implement.

My advice to others wanting to use HPE SimpliVity is for them to try it out. It's really good if you compare it with different solutions. I would suggest trying other solutions to see which one suits their business better. In this case, HPE SimpliVity brought a lot of things to the table, such as the backup is already integrated with this solution, which is very helpful. There are a lot of advantages to HPE SimpliVity.

I rate HPE SimpliVity a nine out of ten.

We are a solution provider and we implement HPE products such as SimpliVity for our customers. I am not a customer and I do not use all of the products that we sell, although I know these solutions. SimpliVity is a product that also we use ourselves. 

The most valuable features are replication and backup.

This solution is very intuitive and flexible.

The vendor was quick to provide support for VMs in the product.

I would like to see support for having different clustered environments for production and testing.

When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly. This is something that should be improved. It should be easier to perform backups.

I have been using HPE SimpliVity for approximately four years.

Using SimpliVity improves the stability of the environment.

The scalability is the best in the market. We have between 10 and 15 users in our organization, and it is installed in the data center.

Technical support is very good and I would rate them a ten out of ten.

The initial setup is easy and it will take five or six hours to deploy.

My advice for anybody who is considering this product is that it is easy to deploy and set up replication for use in a data center. It can be used in production for DLP.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use it for hosting stuff for clients.

It easily backs up our systems, allowing us to recover them.

It makes my job simple.

• It comes all in one box.
• It is simple and easy to use.
• Everything works as advertised.

HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380.

The stability is self-managed.

The scalability may be a little limited. It depends on what we select with it.

We haven't had any issues or problems with the technical support. They help us by setting up a demo and making sure everything functions correctly with the product before we ship it to the client.

Our previous solution was hardware, not a one box solution. It had multiple servers.

It was time to upgrade the client's solution. We chose to go with this solution because it was a small market client.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was simple to set up. After setting it up, it was easy to manage.

We used HPE for the deployment. Our experience with them was great.

We are an HPE shop. Most of the stuff that we have is HPE, so there was only one choice for us.

I would recommend buying this product. It is a simple, self-managed product.

General IT workloads of core services and standard line of business applications.

Reduced storage footprint of primary and secondary copies of data and WAN replication bandwidth with good performance.

Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely. Less experienced admins can perform storage tasks.

Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes.

We are a solution provider. We don't usually use it for our own workload or for ourselves. We are partners of both Dell EMC and HPE. We sell their products and provide solutions based on their products to our end customers.

It is being used in a mining company. I'm currently working with it to upgrade the storage capacity for the load that was sold.

Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it.

They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved.

Its scalability should be improved. We should be able to add drives without disrupting the services.

We have known this product for the last three years or more, but we first sold it to a customer in 2020 or 2021.

I don't have first-hand experience in managing it day to day. So, I don't know if there are any lapses somewhere.

We are currently working on upgrading the storage capacity for a customer from medium to large. The solution is scalable, but they have to work more on the scalability part. That's because you can scale out and scale up, but based on my experience with this customer, scaling up is going to be disruptive. It's going to disrupt their service because the storage has got into a place where they cannot just add the storage node to it without disrupting the service. They have to look at that angle. When you're adding drives, it should be able to just load the drives, do the recalculation, and just work without disrupting your service.

I would rate them an eight out of 10.

Its setup is straightforward.

It is a great solution coming from a pioneer in technology. If you want to go for it, you can go for it, but you have to be sure that this is what you want. 

I would rate it an eight out of 10.