We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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."Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"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."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, 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 Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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