We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix, VMware, Dell Technologies and others in HCI."Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"The solution is scalable."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 6th in HCI with 41 reviews while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 23rd in HCI with 1 review. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Scalable, and has good support, but it could be more user-friendly". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Sangfor HCI, VxRail and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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