We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". 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". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series report.
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