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."When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"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."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"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."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"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."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"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."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"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 product should be competitive with other brands."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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