HPE SimpliVity Pros
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.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment..
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reviewer1050924
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups.
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HPE SimpliVity
June 2022
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Backups happen very quickly.
View full review »The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable.
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reviewer1130889
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We can scale the solution easily.
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reviewer1532436
Chief System & Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers.
View full review »The technical support is exceptionally good.
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reviewer1413912
Senior Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem.
View full review »The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place.
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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.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer.
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reviewer1050924
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The life-cycle management can be improved.
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June 2022
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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.
View full review »Bottleneck is the main issue.
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reviewer1130889
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU.
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reviewer1532436
Chief System & Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The product is expensive.
View full review »There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster.
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reviewer1413912
Senior Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America.
VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity.
View full review »To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions.
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HPE SimpliVity
June 2022
Learn what your peers think about HPE SimpliVity. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2022.
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