HPE SimpliVity Reviews

It is easy to use. 

HPE SimpliVity should cost less. 

I have been using this solution for two years. 

HPE SimpliVity is stable. 

HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present. 

Our experience with technical support has been good. 

It is very easy to use this product. 

Seamless backup, quick deployment.

SimpliVity requires an arbiter to be installed on a non-virtualized (or at least on non-SimpliVity virtualized) storage. This means you can not totally virtualize your environment on SimpliVity. I would like to see the arbiter on a system that is virtualized and eliminate that external portion.

About a year.

The VAR that helped with deployment did not know that the arbiter could not be virtualized and this lead to problems down the road when installing updates.

No.

I have not scaled it yet.

Good.

Excellent.

I switched from a non-hyperconverged solution. This was less hardware and VMware licensing to manage.

Initial setup took a day.

The VAR was still learning the product. I would rate their level of expertise as low.

I also evaluated Nutanix and Scale.

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.

This solution is for general purpose utilization. We are partners with HPE and I'm a system engineer.

The improvement to the company has been in terms of data reduction, we're storing more data with a lower footprint.

The compression and deduplication ratio would be the most valuable features. 

I'd like to see some improvements in terms of simplifying deployment and making it more user friendly. I think the technical support could be improved as well.

I've been using this solution for two years. 

With the newer models we can scale as we need. There are 20 users in our office and probably 200 more worldwide. 

We've carried out this deployment numerous times so it's not an issue. We're able to carry out the physical implementation in two or three hours. Project management and related work takes about two to three weeks. 

The licensing price is okay, there would be extra costs for replication licenses, for RapidDR but nothing on top of that. 

It's important to use the best solution for your requirements and use case. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

The most valuable features are the compression and backup.

Backups are done on disk, and no longer use tapes. Also, restoration of backups is within seconds.

None on technologies side, but the cost of the solution and support would need some improvement

I have used it for one year.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Customer service is 10/10.

Technical support is 10/10.

We previously used regular Windows servers. We switched for better efficiency of storage and backup.

Initial setup was straightforward.

A vendor team with good knowledge implemented it.

ROI is 100%.

Pricing and support is on the high side, but well worth it.

Before choosing, we also evaluated Nutanix and Cisco.

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.

The product's installation process could be made easier.

I have been working with this solution for two to three years.

This is a stable solution.

This product doesn't scale - it's for small environments with two or three nodes, no more.

Tech support is ok.

Installation doesn't take a long time, one or two days. Deployment and maintenance can be done by one person.

The cost of this product is high, so some customers may be better off building their own system or buying their own servers and set of devices.

This solution is best for companies just starting out or who are working with a small environment and are looking for a small infrastructure. Those intending to install SimpliVity should have vCenter integrated somewhere beforehand. I would give this solution a score of eight out of ten.

• To build up HCI and upgrade existing VMware farm
• To set up local HA and site DR solution for business
• Fast backup solution

From eight ESXi servers (local HA only, without site DR) to three SimpliVity solutions in prod site with HA and one SimpliVity solution in DR site.

For setting up site-to-site DR.

• It comes with backup and site-to-site DR function
• All license included
• Backup and restore are very fast

• Backup from D2D only to "D2D to tape"
• Supports hybrid HDD storage (lower cost for the second-tier workload, now all SSD storage only)
• Support