We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"The documentation could be better."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"Its performance can be faster."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". 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". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with , whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik.
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