HPE SimpliVity Reviews

I am not an end-user. I am a Solutions Architect, and I design solutions based on SimpliVity. Our F&B clients use it in their companies.

Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast.

Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market.

It is stable.

Technical support is very good for HPE. As compared to other vendors, HPE provides better support for all products, not only for hyper-converged solutions.

90% of our business constitutes HPE solutions. Customers who have a certain set of protocols from their other sub-regions or head offices go with other vendors. We don't have any choice on that.

Its initial setup is a little bit tricky. The actual setup itself takes less time, but it is the planning that takes more time. As HPE claims, an organization can reduce the time drastically and set it up within 30 minutes, but that is a theoretical duration. Practically, it takes longer.

Customers always complain that SimpliVity is a little bit higher in price point as compared to other solutions available in the market.

If an organization's IT team does a complete planned implementation, then that process will be very easy and very quick. If you plan properly before implementing it, you would feel the value of the product. If there is something wrong with the planning, then definitely your expectations from the product would not be met. In my opinion, most of the time, organizations invest in solutions, but they don't invest in the proper resources and implementation. It would be good if people can use HPE's expertise so that they have a greater experience when they invest in these solutions, and they are able to see the value of the solutions implemented by the experts.

I would rate HPE SimpliVity an eight out of 10. I would like to see improvements in terms of the setup and the price. No customer will have 100% satisfaction, but we can raise the bar of satisfaction when we overcome these hiccups.

We use it for a Tentacle system, which we provide to our customers. At the moment, it is not in full release, we have just been testing the following:

• Virtualization
• VMs.

It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected. We have been testing it for three months now.

We are still on a PoC. We have not pushed it out that far.

We are expecting the speed that we have seen so far.

From a generic point of view:

• The sheer speed
• The sheer power.

No issues.

No issues.

We had a standard HPE blade server. Our reseller put forward SimpliVity to us. We tried it out and tested it. I was like, "Wow." It blew us away. 

I was not involved in the initial setup, but I was told that it was very straightforward.

Cost is a factor. It is quite expensive.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: price and service. HPE emcompasses these values.

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.

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. 

Powerful, unbeatable hyper-converged solution from HPE SimpliVity 380 with OmniStack. 

It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. 

The most complete hyper-convergence infrastructure solution in the industry complying with the number one server platform in the market.

Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools.

Investing less time in configuration and management means that you will have more time to focus on what is really important: Your company's innovation and rapid commercialization.

We are selling SimpliVity based on customer requirements which include HCI solutions with a lot of applications. 

HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them.

It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors.

I have been working with HPE SimpliVity for about three years.

HPE SimpliVity is a stable solution.

HPE SimpliVity is a scalable solution. 

HPE local and global technical support is very good. Customers can reach them easily.

The initial setup was straightforward. There were no complications.

SimpliVity is an HPE brand, and it comes with the advantage of easily using Hyper-V and VMware solutions. Hyper-V customers can move to VMware or use both solutions. HyperFlex for this isn't so easy. 

I would recommend HPE and the processing of HPE SimpliVity to potential users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE SimpliVity an eight.

It is easy to set up. 

Its performance can be faster.

I have been using HPE SimpliVity for one to two years.

It is stable.

It is scalable.

They provide good support.

It was easy.

It is not too expensive, but it is quite expensive for me.

I am completely satisfied with this solution. I would rate HPE SimpliVity a nine out of ten.

Production servers running on virtualization (such as web, DB, mail, and file), and the report server requires more disk performance to reduce report generation.

Improves backup time and DR solution. We can backup with more frequency and minimize RPO and RTO.

• Deduplication
• Compression

It helps us save on the cost of storage and improves the backup and DR solution.

Cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS.

It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity.