We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Exalogic [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"Scalablility: When we need to upgrade from an eighth-rack to a full-rack, the real downtime is less then an hour."
"The main benefit of using the solution is for the performance it provides."
"Exalogic offers integration with other engineered systems, which increases the throughput capability and enables processing of bigger and heavier workloads."
"Enterprise high-speed interoperability: With IPoIB we can deliver to other environments, either IP-Ethernet-based or IP-InfiniBand-based protocol, both with minimum bandwidth capacity of 10Gbps, 20Gbps, or 40Gbps, redundantly."
"The automation and provisioning of the environment, as well as the centralized monitoring, have all improved over the years."
"Server consolidation. In a cloud architecture, moving the HA VM from one to other is faster. This is because of the InfiniBand network fabric between the compute nodes and storage nodes (ZFS Storage)."
"Provides high-speed network, strong storage features (ZFS), High Availability out of the box, and is Integrated with a large number of products."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"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."
"Middleware application services, such as statistics, data mining, could be better."
"The solution needs to add a network virtualization feature similar to that of VxRail. If they could implement that, it would be great for the product."
"The solution is prone to disk failures. This needs to improve. Over the past four years we've had to replace about six of them. They've failed almost every three to six months."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Oracle Exalogic [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exalogic [EOL] writes "Enables you to control middleware licenses and apps. EMOC needs more attention and simplification". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is most compared with .
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