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HPE SimpliVity vs Maxta Hyperconvergence Software comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

HPE SimpliVity
Ranking in HCI
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
154
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Maxta Hyperconvergence Soft...
Ranking in HCI
38th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of HPE SimpliVity is 8.6%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Mohammed Lokman Hossen - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support
The product helped improve the way our organization functions starting with our hiring practices. We do not have to have a storage engineer or other engineering specialists. So, for example, I had a budget to get someone for a security engineer position of $120,000 a year. In the end, after talking to several local people in my industry, they just told me that security guys will come in and then somebody will offer them $5,000 more and they will just go where the money is. So I went with a third party called the Arctic Wolf Networks to do all my monitoring of my Office 365 environments, all of our servers, collect all the logs, and get all the services I needed from one source that would be consistent. This way, I can hire just general networking engineers and they can run everything. I do not have to have special employees and the benefits of that flexibility are pretty great. With the solution, you can swap out a drive for a larger capacity drive. You can lose a couple of drives and everything still runs. You can lose the server and it is self-healing and you can schedule maintenance around events. But I do not have to have staffing 24-hours a day because we do not have outages. That is probably the biggest thing. Meanwhile, in another part of the network that I am currently taking over from the global holding company, they have outages all the time. Sometimes it is due to a network failure or sometimes it is just poor engineering practices and standards. Over there we just set up to large servers and a couple of data centers using the VxRail system, which is like vSAN, so it is pretty similar stuff to our current setups but just uses other products.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"It is easy to set up."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
 

Cons

"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's about $10,000 monthly."
"The hardware is expensive. For the same price, Cisco can provide more hardware specifications for us."
"Upfront costs seems high at first look, but after analyzing all the benefits of SimpliVity, we have come out ahead."
"All-in license, simple and fair."
"The solution can be expensive if you are using a lot of nodes."
"It has helped to reduce our VMware licensing costs due to host consolidation."
"The solution is priced high. However, there are plenty of features as part of the package that other solutions do not have."
"For the VMware licensing, it is approximately $10,000 a year."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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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?
The price is almost equal to VMware vSAN, making it not much cost saving. However, the time-saving during upgrades is notable.
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SimpliVity, HPE HCI
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Sample Customers

Red Bull Racing, Mandarin Oriental, Brigham Young University, UCLA, Merlin Entertainments, Sasa Cosmetics, Travelport, St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Princess House
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