We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Scale Computing HC3 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."Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"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 solution is very stable."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"They require more media visibility."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"The product could use a better control center."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Scale Computing HC3 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 Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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