HPE SimpliVity vs Stratoscale [EOL] comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Stratoscale are both solutions in the HCI category. Additionally, 88% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Stratoscale users who would recommend it.

HPE SimpliVity

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

HPE SimpliVity

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

155

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Stratoscale [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

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Featured Reviews

Mohammed Lokman Hossen

Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Has integrated solutions and rapid recovery made management smoother and more reliable

There is the latest update from HPE regarding HPE SimpliVity. For virtualization, HPE has to depend on other manufacturers, OEMs such as VMware or Hyper-V. Recently, HPE declared the VM essential virtualization solution. In the future, if HPE integrates HPE SimpliVity with VM essential, that will be a great combination. Functionality-wise, I am totally satisfied with HPE SimpliVity, but for improvement, if HPE integrates its own virtualization solution, this combination and integration will be beneficial because this integration can be configured with the cloud-based system. A VM can be uploaded to the cloud from this, which will be advantageous for backup to other sites.

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Robert Bush

Server and Storage Platform Team Lead at Invesco US

I like the automation and self-healing features

SDDC. Speed to market. Automation and self-healing. Oracle engine. Google and Azure API. Still implementing.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"All of these awesome features make Simplivity a real game changer in the market."

"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."

"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."

"With HPE SimpliVity, hosting applications has become very easy and fast."

"Within our first year, one of our SQL servers got corrupted somehow and wouldn't boot, and we restored the VM from the previous backup, which was at that time about an hour old, and in under a minute we had that 950 GB VM up and running."

"The ability to restore quickly and get the business back up and running is priceless."

"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."

"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."

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"Automation and self-healing."

"We efficiently move resources between major engineering projects."

"We hired a third company to stress test the system and it was above and beyond in terms of what we expected."

Cons

"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."

"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."

"Upgrading can be complicated."

"The fact that it is compatible with vCenter (VMware) only; however, the company says Hyper-V and KVM are coming shortly."

"I don't think it's as simple as it is marketed, but it is a new product."

"The life-cycle management can be improved."

"Technical support is not so good. We have some issues with the memory and we still don't have answers for that problem."

"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."

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"Oracle engine. Google and Azure API."

"Initial setup was complex at the beginning as the system was still lacking some important features, while every new release required a full reinstallation."

"We never had an issue with stability, but when we implemented the product, there were certain places where we weren't sure that they are completely aligned with our goals, in terms of how we use the system to get there."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cost is a factor. It is quite expensive."

"The solution is priced high. However, there are plenty of features as part of the package that other solutions do not have."

"We're paying $3,000-$4,000 a month."

"We did get some quotes from Nutanix, and they were ballparks. So, it is not cheap, and there is nothing free, but those two were comparable."

"It's about $10,000 monthly."

"For the VMware licensing, it is approximately $10,000 a year."

"We bought this solution as a package that included all of the hardware and all of the software."

"It is expensive for this market. Everyone says that it is a very good product, but the only complaint is about the price."

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Midsize Enterprise	49
Large Enterprise	80

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Questions from the Community

How does HPE Simplivity compare with VMware vSAN?

HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that is primarily geared to mid-sized companies. We researched VMware vSAN but found HPE was a better option for us. HPE SimpliVity has ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE SimpliVity?

Standalone HPE SimpliVity is more expensive than other OEMs and solutions. Regarding the software side, VMware is costing significantly more nowadays compared to other solutions in the market. The ...

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What needs improvement with HPE SimpliVity?

I haven't noticed anything that should be better in HPE SimpliVity, as I haven't done extensive work on this platform; I have only completed a couple of projects recently. Pricing could be an area ...

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Also Known As

SimpliVity, HPE HCI

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Overview

HPE SimpliVity provides businesses with advanced features such as inline deduplication, compression, and instant recovery, enabling efficient backup and scalability. Its integration with VMware and centralized management fosters ease of use, establishing a streamlined IT infrastructure.

HPE SimpliVity stands as a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking a robust infrastructure capable of handling diverse workloads. Its features like integrated backup and disaster recovery ensure quick restores and high availability. Known for its efficient use of storage and data processing capabilities, it helps reduce operational costs. This system offers a reliable framework for virtualized environments, enhancing disaster recovery processes, IT operations, and application hosting while supporting workloads such as Oracle, SAP, and SQL.

What are HPE SimpliVity's key features?

Inline Deduplication: Minimizes data redundancy, enhancing storage efficiency.
Compression: Optimizes storage, reducing space requirements.
Instant Recovery: Facilitates rapid restoration of data and applications.
Centralized Management: Simplifies IT operations with unified management.
Scalable Architecture: Adapts to business growth seamlessly.

What benefits should users seek in HPE SimpliVity reviews?

Cost Reduction: Achieves savings through efficient data processing and storage utilization.
High Availability: Ensures consistent service and data accessibility.
VMware Integration: Provides compatibility and smooth operations in VMware environments.
Quick Disaster Recovery: Enables swift restoration processes for continued business operations.

Organizations deploy HPE SimpliVity mainly for virtualized environments, focusing on disaster recovery, IT operations, and application hosting. Extensively used in sectors for VDI, backups, and data center tasks, it supports major workloads like Oracle and SAP, simplifying infrastructure management while ensuring high availability.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Stratoscale is the cloud infrastructure company, allowing enterprises to deploy an AWS-compatible region in any data center. Stratoscale Symphony, can be deployed in minutes on commodity x86 servers, creating an Amazon Web Services (AWS) compatible region and offering AWS-compatible services including EC2, S3, EBS, RDS and Kubernetes. Stratoscale was named a “Cool Vendor in Servers and Virtualization” by Gartner and raised over $70M from leading investors including: Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm Ventures, SanDisk and Leslie Ventures.

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Sample Customers

Red Bull Racing, Mandarin Oriental, Brigham Young University, UCLA, Merlin Entertainments, Sasa Cosmetics, Travelport, St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Princess House

SanDisk, Orange, Merck, NTT, Troy Cable, Bezeq, Tieto, Neen, Ofek Cloud Technologies, APA IT, Netkom, SOS Surveillance, Futong, WeBank, Team Netsol

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