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HPE SimpliVity vs IBM PureSystems comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

HPE SimpliVity
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
155
Ranking in other categories
HCI (6th)
IBM PureSystems
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Converged Infrastructure (9th), Converged Infrastructure for SAP HANA (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. HPE SimpliVity is designed for HCI and holds a mindshare of 6.5%, down 9.0% compared to last year.
IBM PureSystems, on the other hand, focuses on Converged Infrastructure, holds 5.4% mindshare, up 2.8% since last year.
HCI Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE SimpliVity6.5%
VxRail11.3%
VMware vSAN9.3%
Other72.9%
HCI
Converged Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM PureSystems5.4%
FlexPod XCS12.8%
HPE ConvergedSystem10.8%
Other71.0%
Converged Infrastructure
 

Featured Reviews

Mohammed Lokman Hossen - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Has integrated solutions and rapid recovery made management smoother and more reliable
There is the latest update from HPE regarding HPE SimpliVity. For virtualization, HPE has to depend on other manufacturers, OEMs such as VMware or Hyper-V. Recently, HPE declared the VM essential virtualization solution. In the future, if HPE integrates HPE SimpliVity with VM essential, that will be a great combination. Functionality-wise, I am totally satisfied with HPE SimpliVity, but for improvement, if HPE integrates its own virtualization solution, this combination and integration will be beneficial because this integration can be configured with the cloud-based system. A VM can be uploaded to the cloud from this, which will be advantageous for backup to other sites.
it_user6186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Analyst and Advisory Consultant at Server StorageIO - www.storageio.com
PureSystems, something old, something new, something from big blue
PART I For a certain generation of IBM faithful or followers the recently announced PureFlex and PureApplication systems might give a sense of DejaVu perhaps even causing some to wonder if they just woke up from a long Rip Van Winkle type nap. Yet for another generation who may not yet be future…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution, and it's also a scalable solution; as the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"Customer service is very good; fast reaction time."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"There are three big improvements that SimpliVity brought to our organization: The ability to quickly and reliably create and maintain a disaster recovery environment over a relatively, low bandwidth WAN connection."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The strengths of the system is how the Flex scales from a very powerful, next generation BladeCenter all the way up to an IaaS platform."
 

Cons

"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"There can be days where you don't feel you get support, but mostly it works fine."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"The initial configuration is complicated."
"The FSM does not quite deliver in the areas it plays too. A fairly sluggish interface that is more complex and less streamlined than it perhaps could be, holds it back and deployment of certain functionality from the switches requires more user intervention than feels necessary."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of the licenses, customers do not actually get any benefit."
"The solution is affordable and quite reasonably priced in terms of the product one gets."
"The time savings on the administration side of things is huge. We had somebody who was dedicated pretty much full-time to hardware, and now, they spend about a quarter of their time a year on hardware-related issues."
"We bought this solution as a package that included all of the hardware and all of the software."
"It seemed like it was expensive at first. Now that I have had it installed for a period of time, I think I got a great deal."
"One big advantage with SimpliVity is that you don't need the higher license cost or VMware to put together a simple SimpliVity solution."
"I think it's a complete package. We buy the license with support for five years. It's a subscription, I will say, but it's included when you buy the SimpliVity solution from HPE. You have a contract with the software warranty and upgrades."
"This solution, while costly as all these solutions are, was in fact less expensive than upgrading my old SAN."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business67
Midsize Enterprise49
Large Enterprise80
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Questions from the Community

How does HPE Simplivity compare with VMware vSAN?
HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that is primarily geared to mid-sized companies. We researched VMware vSAN but found HPE was a better option for us. HPE SimpliVity has ...
What do you like most about HPE SimpliVity?
The solution's technical support is good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE SimpliVity?
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Also Known As

SimpliVity, HPE HCI
PureSystems
 

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Sample Customers

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