"Consolidation and duplications features."
"We find the deduplication and compression features to be most valuable, as well as that of the backup solution inside."
"This is a scalable solution. Our customers begin with an initial configuration and later add more servers, memory and other options to meet the demands of increased processing."
"The storage, BladeSystems, Virtual Connect, and simplicity with hyper-converged solutions are the most valuable features of this solution."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"The MTG inside HP could be improved."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would like to see monitoring solutions included, as well as brand support."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"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."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
HPE ConvergedSystem is ranked 4th in Converged Infrastructure with 4 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 4th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 60 reviews. HPE ConvergedSystem is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE ConvergedSystem writes "Secure, easy to configure, and integrates well with third-party solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". HPE ConvergedSystem is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Dell VxBlock System, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and FlexPod, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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