The tool is not very good when it comes to the scalability part, and it doesn't work like Nutanix alternatives that work in active stretcher clusters and nodes, as both work in pairs. If you need to scale up and increase the workloads, the fact is that we have to deploy a new pair of security nodes, and they don't work smoothly and transparently. There are many things that are not very well resolved in HPE SimpliVity.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a five out of ten.

There are four admins working with the tool.

My company is unsure about increasing the use of the product since we are still analyzing certain areas of the solution.

Our company may use HPE SimpliVity, and it means purchasing new pairs of the product, or maybe we may go for a change and go for an alternative like Nutanix.

HPE SimpliVity is scalable within certain limits. Adding nodes to a cluster is straightforward, but there's a constraint on the number of nodes you can add. If you need extensive scalability, you might want to compare it with solutions like Nutanix or Dell, which support a larger number of nodes. I work with a diverse range of clients, including small, medium, and large enterprises. HPE SimpliVity is suitable for all of them.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a five out of ten.

Approximately 50 people in my company use the product.

The product is used on a regular and daily basis for operations.

There are some limitations, such as scalability up to 64 nodes.

The tool has operated without any need for adjustments or expansions. Initially, we received guidance from HPE regarding system sizing, which ensured that it could effectively operate for at least five years without significant modifications. The solution's scalability is suitable based on our experience and this initial sizing package.

150 users are using this solution.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

In terms of scalability, our expansion depends on how many end users I want to be using it because the sizing of the HCI depend on the number of end users that will connect to the HCI node.

I think that we have witnessed improvement in the performance between the HCI solution and traditional servers.

We have 600 users now, and next year we will have an additional 400. This brings us to 1000 users. Then we'll look for an expansion.

I rate the tool’s scalability a seven out of ten. It's a system based on appliances. If we want to scale, we must get a new appliance. Every hyperconverged infrastructure has a similar model. If I want more storage, it's not flexible because I need to add more appliances. The tool is suitable for medium and small companies.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability, and we already added another server to the cluster.

Scaling is problematic. It's not as scalable as other solutions, such as Nutanix. In our scenario, it's not a big point for us as we have a medium enterprise. Therefore, we don't need to scale straight to tens of nodes. We only have four nodes at this time. For us it's not a problem, however, maybe for larger organizations, it can become a problem.

It is a scalable solution. However, you will need to add the same number of storage pods and compute nodes to each node.

Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 80 people in my organization in France and we work together with 2,000 other regions that all use the solution.

We're a relatively small organization so it was able to scale down to our level. We understand it can scale up exponentially.

Scalability is fine. We are a fairly small organization, so it hasn't really come up. We fit well into their small end of deployments. From what I hear, it can scale quite high. However, that is not a functionality or feature that we've come across yet.

The scalability of the storage and memory are less than ideal. Although there are unused drive slots in the SimpliVity hosts, you can't just add additional drives. You must purchase additional nodes to increase the storage capacity. We needed to expand the RAM after putting the nodes in service, and the only option was to add another 384 GB of RAM, the same amount that the node came with.

No issues. The system was sized right by the SimpliVity engineers

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. There are around nine end users in our company using this solution. 

SimpliVity's scalability is good, but you definitely need to opt for two processors if you want scalability. It's limited otherwise.

The scalability is okay. You only need to aggregate some nodes, then increase the capacity of the structure.

It was inconceivable that we could deploy a 2U solution and gain all the server, storage, and data protection functionality that we needed. Scalability was a huge factor, along with ease of use, and management, which was all integrated from within vCenter.

I did not encounter any scalability issues, but it’s too soon, because I don’t need to expand the systems currently in production.

We have found the solution to be scalable and simple to expand as necessary. However, you need to do the sizing properly at the outset.

For the most part, for what it does, the scalability is fine.

The scalability is good, but there can be problems with integration and compatibility when patching or updating the product.

We have not really tried to expand the product, due to the fact that we don't really want to invest more into it. Therefore, I can't really speak to the solution's capabilities in this matter. We're just going to use it and maybe over a period of time, we might just come out of it.

It scales well so far. We had to increase capacity. It was able to scale pretty simply, and that worked well.

The scalability is good. It's scalable to what we need it for.

No

For small and medium-sized businesses the scalability is fine. There are likely to be issues in large environments and it requires extra planning.

If I compare it to our recent solution, it is not so scalable. We have had about 10 customers. Normally, it is in a branch office, so there are less than 200 users.

The solution is quite scalable. 

We closed six deals. The largest one is a 4-node cluster, and another is a 2-node cluster and 3-node cluster. Very recently, we closed a deal with the largest private sector insurance company which is about four nodes. They are going to expand the environment. We have another five HPE SimpliVity references in Sri Lanka. Currently, we are working with a few customers on some upgrades. 

The scalability of the solution is very good. It's quite scalable, but one problem with all HCI solutions is that maybe the customer is just growing on storage and not on compute or memory. Then you have to add more nodes although you don't need more compute or memory. But with SimpliVity, you can actually upgrade your storage in the nodes, so you can go from a medium-sized SimpliVity node to a large or an extra-large. In that case, you don't have to buy more nodes, because more nodes requires more VMware licenses, and that's a big cost for a customer.

HP is renowned for scalability. They're using Nimble and three-part technology for storage and backup.

The scalability is very good. It's excellent for a branch office/remote office, instead of a data center.

We have not encountered any scalability issues. We've added nodes into our server federation without issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes. You can't just add more disks to it.

We have about 250 users.

Scaling isn't so hard.

I haven't had to try and scale it yet.

It is pretty good for a small to medium-sized business.

No, but we sized correctly in the beginning and have not needed to since.

Scalability is very good in SimpliVity. Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable.

HPE SimpliVity is easy to scale.

I think it is scalable.

The scalability is great.

We have 13 nodes in our data center.

No, it works well.

We have not done a whole lot with scalability. We've upgraded a little bit, but from everything that we've seen, it's easy, simple, and it can scale as much as we need it to.

Not so far

Its performance decreases when we have a lot of nodes.

It is suitable for small, medium, and large companies. It can be used in almost all companies.

It is scalable.

We do not need to scale the solution because we have purchased it with servers, with two processors, and 750 gigabytes of memory per server. We have everything that we need and do not need to upgrade or scale the server or scale the infrastructure.

It is easy to scale. We have more than 2,000 users.

The solution is not so scalable, because you have only a few options to expand the system.
We have between 100 users and 500 users.

No. When scaling you need to consider that scaling an hyperconverged infrstructure is different from a traditional server stacks, because basically you are tied to adding one building block which adds server, cpu, ram, disk all at once. in a traditional stack you will look at each component constantly and scale them up indipendently. Another aspect is that the indicator which will tell you when it is time to scale might be different from your expectations. In my experience we did in the past scale traditional stacks when the storage was getting full. After implementing Simplivity, my indicator is now the disk latency. The storage itself will almost never get full, but after adding additional workloads for 2 years I have learned that although the disk is not full, you want to look at certain thresholds in your disk latency, or in certain cases at RAM availability on the appliances.

I'd like to see better scalability. For SimpliVity, it's hyper-converged and is limited. It doesn't scale to, maybe, where we would like to see it. However, now the fact that HPE has purchased SimpliVity and it's now HPE SimpliVity, we will start to see that it scales out across other platforms, or at least, hopefully, we will see it scale.

I have not encountered any scalability issues in my environment and situation.

We have not had scalability issues.

No.

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

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.

It is not very scalable. However, I think it is supposed to be like that. It is not supposed to be like a massive solution with about 30 clusters, and that is by design. I don't think that is a flaw. It is designed for small clusters, so it is not very scalable. 

In terms of scalability, this solution fits us. However, I think that the actual limitations are somewhat less than what people might want. For our purpose, it's ok.

No.

When you go past eight nodes, you have to get approval. That has been a concern of ours. Sometimes they say that that it has been approved, and other times, they say that they have to go through the approval process again.

No, We have increase capacity 2X.

The scalability is good but you need to pay for the additional nodes that can be expensive. We are currently using the solution for one thousand people in our organization.

I would recommend this solution to others.

We have approximately 10 customers using this solution.

SimpliVity offers built-in scalability but there is an override with the data protection policy that they are providing, what kind of flexibility when it comes to managing the complete virtual machines. 

The cluster has its own limitation. You cannot go beyond 32 or 64 nodes.

You can have multiple clusters and you can share your application across the clusters, but, yes, there are limitations. Though the limitation is not small it allows you to have 32 or 64 nodes in a cluster. When it comes to managing it, the more you add, the more complex it becomes to manage.

We have given it to many customers. Few of the customers are running it for the highest number of possible nodes in the clusters.

The scalability is good.

I haven't tried to scale it.

It scales very easy. Like I told you, I have coverage. You just rack and stack, and it just scales.

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

The solution is scalable. If we want to expand then we only need to purchase new nodes and set them up.

We have approximately 100 users using this solution.

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

You can easily scale without any problem by adding new nodes, which is a very good part of the product. Currently, my customers don't have a requirement for scalability, but they will have a requirement in the future. They will have to scale the platform, storage, and virtual machines in the near future. A customer is planning to add one or two nodes at the beginning of the next year. My customers are medium-sized and big-sized companies.

The product initially had a limitation of 12 nodes in a federation, which has been increased to 32. Keep this in the back of your mind, particularly when looking at the number of nodes in a single stack.

We have not done a whole lot with scalability. We've upgraded a little bit, but based on everything that we've seen, it's easy, simple, and can scale as much as we need it.

Scalability is good. We have a small implementation, so I can't speak very well to scalability. We have a three-mode installation now. We're going to six modes already and I would expect that to be an improvement.

It is very scalable.

The product is very scalable, if you can work with the building blocks. If you need more computing power, you can add computing nodes, which can be any x86 server. If you need more storage, you need to add a SimpliVity OmniCube or OmniStack node.

HPE SimpliVity could be more scalable.

This product is easy to scale, but it's not cheap to do so.

The solution is scalable, although one occasionally will wish to have a four socket processor. As we do not possess this, we have had multiple systems running.

It is not easy to scale. In our instance, we would probably have to upgrade to a whole new hardware platform.

In terms of end-users, our company is small, but we support school districts. There are probably 500 users.

Our clients are small and medium-sized businesses, so we implement small infrastructures - three nodes to five nodes.

Our clients are very happy with this solution. I don't know if they will buy more SimpliVity though.

We have absolutely not had any issues with scalability. A customer just has to buy another box and plug it into the system if they need more logical space. Or, if they need more memory or cores, just attach a non-SimpliVity system.

I have not scaled yet.

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.

Scalability sounds easy, just add nodes. We haven't had to do that yet, since we just started.

It scales quite nicely. We are not very big so I don't know if it really scales up that big. But for a small to medium company, I would say it is much better, for example, than the competition. For us, it is the right size. I think it was the right choice.

No customers have tried to scale yet.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues. We initially started out with a 2+1 configuration and then scaled up to a 3+2 with no issues.

We have around 200 users.

The scalability is linear.

The scalability options are clear and mostly satisfying.

The scalability of this solution is great but could be better.

The solution is converging in a public place, the scalability is good. We have approximately 70 users using the solution in my company,

No, but we have only added one node so far.

Slight inconvenience with scaling out with the All Flash nodes. We had to put them into their own datacenter because of compatibility issues with the CN3000s (seriously?). While it's not the end of the world, I unfortunately am not able to do inline vmotion of servers between the datacenters. Instead I have to do a cold storage vmotion with a powered off guest server. Not the end of the world, but is inconvenient to me because it makes for some late nights. A larger server takes many hours to move over my 1GB network. This may just be an issue with my configuration and lack of a 10GB switch.

Scalability is very good.

Not yet.

We added a fourth server with relative ease.

No scalability issues.

The solution is very, very scalable. If a company needs to expand it, they can do so easily.

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.

This is a scalable solution.

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.

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

Scalability so far has been pretty good. We haven't really had customers that have had a scale beyond an extreme amount of nodes; eight, nine, ten nodes. It's been rock solid.

We have about five different customers who are utilizing the solution currently.

This solution is scalable. You can add additional nodes at any time. It's easier to scale than Cisco Hyperflex and better than Nutanix.

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.

The scalability is good and simple.

So far, we have not encountered any issues with scalability.

No issues with scalability.

I have not scaled it yet.

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.

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

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

It is scalable. Everybody in our organization is using this solution because internally, all our applications are running on it. We have around 50 users and 5 administrators.

SimpliVity is as scalable as all the other solutions. 

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

The scalability is okay.

No issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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

HPE SimpliVity is a scalable solution. 

It is scalable.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability. Has horizontal scalability.