We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The solution is scalable."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The solution is stable."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"The line migration is a problem."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. 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 Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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