We performed a comparison between Azure Stack HCI and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The solution has the latest processor."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to manage VMs."
"In my hybrid cloud setup, there are three features I've found very efficient. The first is software-defined networking. Similar to Azure where you create virtual networks and software load balancing, Azure Stack HCI lets you configure them with a drag-and-drop experience on the on-premises cluster. That's one of the good feature."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The main thing is its performance. In terms of performance, it is a lot better than VMware. Obviously, technology is changing a lot all the time. We were on just VMware with a separate attached array. The performance was kind of a step backward from just running separate servers. Now, the performance is much better, and we can take snapshots and backups of really big servers in just a matter of seconds. We can even restore them in a matter of seconds."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"We faced multiple problems with the product’s stability."
"The product's initial setup phase can be a bit complex, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement. Since I've been working very closely with this product, there are many areas, especially in software-defined networking. We had to improve multiple areas because we depended on the service fabric cluster to manage the software-defined network. That means we're already running a hypervisor inside a VM, and we're managing the control plane of the software-defined network. That's another cluster. So, multiple layers make the complexity more. So, from an operational perspective, it's very difficult to manage."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
Azure Stack HCI is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews. Azure Stack HCI is rated 8.4, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack HCI writes "Performs well, provides good features, and has the latest processor". 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". Azure Stack HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN and VxRail, 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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