Senior System Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
2024-10-08T08:57:00Z
Oct 8, 2024
We are actually in a corporate environment system, and we have that relationship with HPE and VMware. We use SimpliVity, and some of the other workloads are running on it.
I use the solution in my company to run approximately ten virtual machines in one region. HPE stated that my company could use SimpliVity without making any changes in our environment, especially the VMware environment. After installing HPE SimpliVity, my company saw that we could not update our central server without its permission. HPE SimpliVity must approve vCenter update, but it was not something that HPE had mentioned to our company. My company also learned that HPE SimpliVity does not support vCenter and VMware vSphere AK. HPE should have told us about the aforementioned details before we purchased HPE SimpliVity in our company, owing to which we are a bit disappointed with the tool.
In my company, we use HPE SimpliVity. Our company has four HPE SimpliVity nodes working in pairs because it works in the stretched cluster mode, and ensures the replication between data centers. Every virtual machine is replicated in the cluster. When Our company has some issues, some problem in one of the data centers or one of the hosts, the other can resume or move the workload and can start after five minutes, more or less the automation again. Our company can have some kind of high availability in our on-premises equipment.
Solutions Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2022-02-20T17:13:00Z
Feb 20, 2022
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.
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2022-02-03T12:17:37Z
Feb 3, 2022
The solution is used for server consolidation and, with SimpliVity and other hyper-converged solutions, we can reduce the footprint and we can give them added benefits, like backup, DR, compression, and deduplication. The main use case for SimpliVity is for backup and cloning, and rapid DR. If you take vSAN, we can say the selling point is server consolidation, and then you can start your STDC journey.
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.
The main reason for the selection was that SimpliVity ensures high availability, and, with the static cluster configuration, we are reasonably protected as we have two nodes with synchronous replication. That's why we feel comfortable enough to use this technology.
Group IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-09-20T09:49:51Z
Sep 20, 2021
We are in the hospitality industry with 10 hotels, and all the systems are on HPE SimpliVity infrastructure. We have our 10 systems on the infrastructure, such as a huge hospitality application, finance, and material control systems.
Presales and Consulting at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
MSP
2021-09-10T16:05:00Z
Sep 10, 2021
We sell SimpliVity to our customers along with all products that can be categorized as hyper-converged infrastructure. I'm a consultant in pre-sales, and we are resellers and distributors.
We are resellers. We provide HPE products to our customers. This solution is used with UDI, HCI, the hybrid cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other Microsoft products.
A primary use case involves the length of deployment of the product, this year being three or four hours for the customers and two for a small company conducting sales with Veeam Backup, VMware, and Microsoft. It is not only for HPE.
We are an SIEM integrator. We are working with a lot of products that our clients have, and we are studying products in our clients' production. It is mostly used for remote sites. It is sometimes also used for production. Its version depends on the customer.
Head of ICT Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-12-27T19:56:52Z
Dec 27, 2021
I use HPE SimpliVity for my private cloud, and all my production servers are running on this private cloud. My ERP software and the most important system, SAP, is running on HPE SimpliVity. Their metal server is physical, but all the other digital ecosystems or digital platforms are running on my private cloud in SimpliVity HPE.
We implemented SimpliVity last year to attend to two client projects. Since the pandemic, we chose this solution to improve the VDI, the virtual desktop for staff.
Information Technology Manager at Troyer Foods, Inc.
Real User
2021-12-06T14:56:00Z
Dec 6, 2021
We purchased it about five years ago to replace our existing traditional SAN server VM environment. At that time, SimpliVity was the only platform that could house an enterprise-level SQL database. Nobody else had a platform that could handle SQL transactions without imploding. Everybody has got that figured out by now, and it is understandable. We are using an older version because we purchased SimpliVity before it was owned by HPE. After about six to eight months of its implementation, it was purchased by HPE. When we purchased it, it was on the Cisco UCS server platform.
VP Comercial at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-11-30T15:51:53Z
Nov 30, 2021
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.
One of the use cases was that a customer had around 10 servers, which stopped working. The customer wanted to replace all those servers with new ones. I proposed that they should use the SimpliVity solution in place of 10 servers with around 100TB of data in a discrete environment. SimpliVity is an on-premise solution. It's not cloud-based. We have four customers who deal with HP SimpliVity.
We use it for financial applications. We are a small organization, so it has all of our servers, financial applications, SQL database, file servers, etc. I believe we are up to date with the latest version for our hardware specs.
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2021-09-27T13:38:00Z
Sep 27, 2021
I work with medium-sized clients who have around 200 users. SimpliVity is a general-purpose solution for all kinds of VMs. With SimpliVity, because we can own the VMware, you can have all VMs of any type of VDI.
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-01-14T10:50:26Z
Jan 14, 2021
We primarily use the solution for the virtualization and the hyper-converged solutions in the software backup and recovery as well as the high data reduction rate.
Senior IT Specialist at Servicios de Consultorias de IT
Real User
2021-01-06T05:24:00Z
Jan 6, 2021
Our clients' primary use for HPE SimpliVity has been for general infrastructure, not for any one specific thing. This includes different uses - for the server, SQL, the internal information server, different servers, etc.
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-12-10T05:55:46Z
Dec 10, 2020
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.
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-11-06T20:27:40Z
Nov 6, 2020
We have about 45 virtual servers running for the company. These include file servers, SQL servers, public safety, GIS, Exchange, and all other applications used by a local government.
Senior Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Reseller
2020-11-02T18:00:37Z
Nov 2, 2020
We sell HP products. Hyperconvergence with SimpliVity is one of the main products that we are pushing. The virtual application is the main product. It is based on the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), but it is only an application. We sell this infrastructure to our customers and put the virtual application in this infrastructure.
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-25T06:39:00Z
Jun 25, 2019
It is for the production virtual environment. I have virtualized almost 99 percent of my servers, and I'm using SimpliVity as a host for those virtual machines. It does what needs to be done for us. The main thing for us is to make sure that we can recover a failed VM on a different site if the primary site fails. We need to be able to recover on the DR site. The performance was the main focus.
Senior Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-25T06:39:00Z
Jun 25, 2019
The primary use case is its an offsite virtualization. It runs all our servers at an offsite office in Brazil. Our main sites are in New York and London. We bought a company in Brazil that had aging hardware, so we replaced that with three nodes of the SimpliVity solution. Since it is small office and it does everything, you don't need to have a SAN nor a fancy network. It is a one stop shop, which was really good for this particular thing.
Senior Systems Engineer - Midrange Hardware Standards at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-06-25T06:38:00Z
Jun 25, 2019
General purpose fertilization is our primary use case. This IT solution covers our hardware. We are using it in our VMware virtualization aesthetic to cover all the workloads within our region.
Our primary use case for SimpliVIty was around backup and disaster recovery. We were trying to replace our existing DR service platform, then consolidate our backups from the different solutions, whether that was Veeam on the VMware side, Robocopy for file shares, or Windows Backup or SQL backup for certain applications.
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-01-28T17:12:00Z
Jan 28, 2019
We're running more than 40 ESX 6.5 VMs on a two-node SimpliVity system. The SimpliVity nodes are at two different locations and operate in a stretched cluster mode. This provides mirroring of the flash storage in each node. Approximately half of our VMs run on the site on one node and the other half run on the site on two nodes. In the event of a node failure, all VMs will automatically run on the one good node.
VP/Chief Technology Officer at Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd.
Real User
2018-07-19T20:39:00Z
Jul 19, 2018
At FDF Energy Services, IT is an important differentiator. It allows us to maintain a significant competitive advantage in the market. OmniCube is a perfect fit for our infrastructure because it allows us to simultaneously improve our levels of data protection and disaster recovery capabilities, while significantly reducing our costs. The simplification of our IT environment, coupled with the cost savings, allows us to further invest in the applications running our business.
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We are actually in a corporate environment system, and we have that relationship with HPE and VMware. We use SimpliVity, and some of the other workloads are running on it.
I use the solution in my company to run approximately ten virtual machines in one region. HPE stated that my company could use SimpliVity without making any changes in our environment, especially the VMware environment. After installing HPE SimpliVity, my company saw that we could not update our central server without its permission. HPE SimpliVity must approve vCenter update, but it was not something that HPE had mentioned to our company. My company also learned that HPE SimpliVity does not support vCenter and VMware vSphere AK. HPE should have told us about the aforementioned details before we purchased HPE SimpliVity in our company, owing to which we are a bit disappointed with the tool.
In my company, we use HPE SimpliVity. Our company has four HPE SimpliVity nodes working in pairs because it works in the stretched cluster mode, and ensures the replication between data centers. Every virtual machine is replicated in the cluster. When Our company has some issues, some problem in one of the data centers or one of the hosts, the other can resume or move the workload and can start after five minutes, more or less the automation again. Our company can have some kind of high availability in our on-premises equipment.
With SimpliVity, we can easily deploy multiple solutions, including storage, and allocate servers as needed. It's quite versatile.
We use it for HCI and backup.
We use this product when our customers need software protection, built-in backup, and an NDR solution. I'm a solutions specialist.
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.
The solution is used for server consolidation and, with SimpliVity and other hyper-converged solutions, we can reduce the footprint and we can give them added benefits, like backup, DR, compression, and deduplication. The main use case for SimpliVity is for backup and cloning, and rapid DR. If you take vSAN, we can say the selling point is server consolidation, and then you can start your STDC journey.
We are using HPE SimpliVity in a water distribution facility and for computer administration backups.
I use HPE SimpliVity for the virtual infrastructure of my servers.
We are a large enterprise and are partners of HPE. We use the solution for hyperconverged simple usage scenarios.
We are a partner of HPE. Our customer are using this solution to solve their auto-commerce infrastructure to give space for the process.
Our main use case for SimpliVity is VDI for Citrix and VMware.
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.
We primarily use the solution for hyper-converged purposes.
The main reason for the selection was that SimpliVity ensures high availability, and, with the static cluster configuration, we are reasonably protected as we have two nodes with synchronous replication. That's why we feel comfortable enough to use this technology.
We are using the SimpliVity HCI servers to work as a VDI solution. Mainly it's a VDI solution that is using the HCI nodes.
My main use case is hosting in-house applications as well as public applications over the cloud.
We are selling SimpliVity based on customer requirements which include HCI solutions with a lot of applications.
We are using BHPE SimpliVity for hosting infrastructure.
We are in the hospitality industry with 10 hotels, and all the systems are on HPE SimpliVity infrastructure. We have our 10 systems on the infrastructure, such as a huge hospitality application, finance, and material control systems.
We sell SimpliVity to our customers along with all products that can be categorized as hyper-converged infrastructure. I'm a consultant in pre-sales, and we are resellers and distributors.
HPE SimpliVity is mainly used for virtualized environments.
We are resellers. We provide HPE products to our customers. This solution is used with UDI, HCI, the hybrid cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other Microsoft products.
It is used for managing the infrastructure. It is combined with VMware software. We are using HPE SimpliVity Generation 10.
SimpliVity is used when a customer is looking to build a private cloud environment.
A primary use case involves the length of deployment of the product, this year being three or four hours for the customers and two for a small company conducting sales with Veeam Backup, VMware, and Microsoft. It is not only for HPE.
We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery.
We are an SIEM integrator. We are working with a lot of products that our clients have, and we are studying products in our clients' production. It is mostly used for remote sites. It is sometimes also used for production. Its version depends on the customer.
Most of the installations are for branch offices that need an integrated solution for backup.
I use HPE SimpliVity for my private cloud, and all my production servers are running on this private cloud. My ERP software and the most important system, SAP, is running on HPE SimpliVity. Their metal server is physical, but all the other digital ecosystems or digital platforms are running on my private cloud in SimpliVity HPE.
The main use cases for this solution are consolidation and virtualization.
My primary use case is virtualization and data storage.
We implemented SimpliVity last year to attend to two client projects. Since the pandemic, we chose this solution to improve the VDI, the virtual desktop for staff.
We purchased it about five years ago to replace our existing traditional SAN server VM environment. At that time, SimpliVity was the only platform that could house an enterprise-level SQL database. Nobody else had a platform that could handle SQL transactions without imploding. Everybody has got that figured out by now, and it is understandable. We are using an older version because we purchased SimpliVity before it was owned by HPE. After about six to eight months of its implementation, it was purchased by HPE. When we purchased it, it was on the Cisco UCS server platform.
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.
We are using it for SAP HANA. It is a hybrid solution. We updated to the latest version two months back.
One of the use cases was that a customer had around 10 servers, which stopped working. The customer wanted to replace all those servers with new ones. I proposed that they should use the SimpliVity solution in place of 10 servers with around 100TB of data in a discrete environment. SimpliVity is an on-premise solution. It's not cloud-based. We have four customers who deal with HP SimpliVity.
We run our 50+ virtual servers on SimpliVity and also use it for backups.
We are using the latest update. Our main use case involves the applying of core applications.
We use it for financial applications. We are a small organization, so it has all of our servers, financial applications, SQL database, file servers, etc. I believe we are up to date with the latest version for our hardware specs.
I work with medium-sized clients who have around 200 users. SimpliVity is a general-purpose solution for all kinds of VMs. With SimpliVity, because we can own the VMware, you can have all VMs of any type of VDI.
We are using HPE SimpliVity for our organization's backup and recovery solution.
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.
I am primarily using the product in order to create our open banking solution.
We use it for servers, like the domain controller, DHCP, print server, file server, and distribution server as well as application servers.
This solution is for general purpose utilization. We are partners with HPE and I'm a system engineer.
The product is a hyper-converged solution. We are using this for local databases and application settings.
We use the solution for HCM, secondary distribution endpoints, file sharing, domain controller, all many kinds of applications.
We primarily use the solution for the virtualization and the hyper-converged solutions in the software backup and recovery as well as the high data reduction rate.
Our clients' primary use for HPE SimpliVity has been for general infrastructure, not for any one specific thing. This includes different uses - for the server, SQL, the internal information server, different servers, etc.
I use the solution for virtualised infraestructure of servers.
We are using this solution for a VDI system.
We use it for our production system. We have many production systems.
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.
Typically, our customers use it to try to consolidate their solutions on VMware with multiple virtual machines — almost more than 15 in every case.
We have about 45 virtual servers running for the company. These include file servers, SQL servers, public safety, GIS, Exchange, and all other applications used by a local government.
We are using the solution for our customers. We buy and rent HPE SimpliVity to our customers as a SaaS.
We sell HP products. Hyperconvergence with SimpliVity is one of the main products that we are pushing. The virtual application is the main product. It is based on the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), but it is only an application. We sell this infrastructure to our customers and put the virtual application in this infrastructure.
I'm a service provider. I install it for my customers. I typically implement it for telecoms.
We use it for hosting stuff for clients.
It is for the production virtual environment. I have virtualized almost 99 percent of my servers, and I'm using SimpliVity as a host for those virtual machines. It does what needs to be done for us. The main thing for us is to make sure that we can recover a failed VM on a different site if the primary site fails. We need to be able to recover on the DR site. The performance was the main focus.
We are using SimpliVity for VDI and virtual desktops. We are also using it for some small manufacturing sites.
We use it for VDI.
The primary use is to run the business, production, and Oracle.
We're using it to refresh our retail stores.
We use it in a VMware environment that supports VMs.
We have a virtualized environment and we use it for backups and disaster recovery and to be able to store all of our data locally and replicate.
We use SimpliVity in our retail stores as a backup solution.
The primary use case is its an offsite virtualization. It runs all our servers at an offsite office in Brazil. Our main sites are in New York and London. We bought a company in Brazil that had aging hardware, so we replaced that with three nodes of the SimpliVity solution. Since it is small office and it does everything, you don't need to have a SAN nor a fancy network. It is a one stop shop, which was really good for this particular thing.
We use it for storage.
General purpose fertilization is our primary use case. This IT solution covers our hardware. We are using it in our VMware virtualization aesthetic to cover all the workloads within our region.
We are using this solution in Brazil.
Our primary use case for SimpliVIty was around backup and disaster recovery. We were trying to replace our existing DR service platform, then consolidate our backups from the different solutions, whether that was Veeam on the VMware side, Robocopy for file shares, or Windows Backup or SQL backup for certain applications.
We are in a stretched cluster environment. So far, it has been really good.
We use it for optimization of the platform for the virtualization.
We use it in our original data centers and large sites.
Our primary use case for this solution is to offer a combination of computing storage services to remote locations. It operates in our data centers.
Our primary use case for this solution is for our data center.
We're running more than 40 ESX 6.5 VMs on a two-node SimpliVity system. The SimpliVity nodes are at two different locations and operate in a stretched cluster mode. This provides mirroring of the flash storage in each node. Approximately half of our VMs run on the site on one node and the other half run on the site on two nodes. In the event of a node failure, all VMs will automatically run on the one good node.
* To build up HCI and upgrade existing VMware farm * To set up local HA and site DR solution for business * Fast backup solution
General IT workloads of core services and standard line of business applications.
Currently, we are using it for our VMware workstation. We use it to host our non-production servers.
At FDF Energy Services, IT is an important differentiator. It allows us to maintain a significant competitive advantage in the market. OmniCube is a perfect fit for our infrastructure because it allows us to simultaneously improve our levels of data protection and disaster recovery capabilities, while significantly reducing our costs. The simplification of our IT environment, coupled with the cost savings, allows us to further invest in the applications running our business.
I was searching for a high availability system that could replace our traditional SAN and be responsible for computer configuration and backup.
We are resellers. We change virtual environments and use c7000 plus 3PAR Blades. The repository is for virtual machines.
We use HPE SimpliVity for general corporate IT applications and to support our DevOps automation software.