We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"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."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"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 most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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