We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with , whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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