We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and HPE SimpliVity 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."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 most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"This solution is very costly."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 6th in HCI with 41 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.6, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes "High performance that gives an advantage over traditional virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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