HPE SimpliVity Pros
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Jeff Slabaugh
Information Technology Manager at Troyer Foods, Inc.
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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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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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Backups happen very quickly.
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HPE SimpliVity
May 2023

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Qais Albeni
Head of technical Follow-up and Development at Greater Amman Municipality
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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reviewer952932
Administrador TIC at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view.
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MohammedImran2
FD at Alpha 55
Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable.
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reviewer759009
General Manager / CTO with 201-500 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Yves-Schatzmann
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good.
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reviewer865827
DATABASE APPLICATION ENGINEER with 1-10 employees
The main thing is its performance. In terms of performance, it is a lot better than VMware. Obviously, technology is changing a lot all the time. We were on just VMware with a separate attached array. The performance was kind of a step backward from just running separate servers. Now, the performance is much better, and we can take snapshots and backups of really big servers in just a matter of seconds. We can even restore them in a matter of seconds.
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Jeff Slabaugh
Information Technology Manager at Troyer Foods, Inc.
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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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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Doug Collette
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
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.
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HPE SimpliVity
May 2023

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Qais Albeni
Head of technical Follow-up and Development at Greater Amman Municipality
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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reviewer952932
Administrador TIC at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There may be issues around scaling.
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MohammedImran2
FD at Alpha 55
Not a lean architecture in terms of anything.
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reviewer759009
General Manager / CTO with 201-500 employees
I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system.
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Yves-Schatzmann
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
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.
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reviewer865827
DATABASE APPLICATION ENGINEER with 1-10 employees
The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf.
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HPE SimpliVity
May 2023

Learn what your peers think about HPE SimpliVity. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2023.
708,461 professionals have used our research since 2012.