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 Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"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 most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"It is stable and scalable."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Its performance can be faster."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 23rd in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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