We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"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."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"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."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"The line migration is a problem."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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