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    HPE SimpliVity

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AHPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.N/A

    NetApp AFF A-Series

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ANetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    NetApp
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of HPE SimpliVity and NetApp AFF A-Series
    Feature
    HPE SimpliVity
    -
    Ratings
    NetApp AFF A-Series
    8.3
    8 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Flash Array Performance00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration00 Ratings9.17 Ratings
    Data Compression00 Ratings6.37 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
    Simplicity00 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    Power Savings00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
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    HPE SimpliVityNetApp AFF A-Series
    Small Businesses
    StarWind HCA
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    StarWind HCA
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Dell Compellent (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Score9 out of 10
    Everpure FlashArray
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HPE SimpliVityNetApp AFF A-Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    I only know what I know...which is my IT world. Having two datacenters that were physical servers attached to a SAN that "attempted" to replicate and then migrating. For a SMB small IT shop that happens to have two datacenters already in place...this has been ideal. I can have a generalist maintain the system and we have a private cloud for DR with hardly any effort...the biggest gain by far!
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    NetApp
    Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
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    Pros
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Deduplication and Compression - SimpliVity keeps the space consumption to a minimum. We currently have 60 servers running virtually and we still have room to grow. This really helps with the backups as we can have longer retention.
    • Backups - Ability to keep backups for longer and to create multiple backup policies for a VM is a breeze. You can have a backup policy for each datastore as well as a separate backup policy for the same VM.
    • Creating Datastores is very easy. No more messing around with LUNS and iSCSI. Just go to the SimpliVity tab and select create datastore and it's done. You can also increase the datastore on the fly as well as have a datastore bigger than 2TB.
    • File level recovery is included as well. The whole backup process in SimpliVity can help you do away with other software.
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    NetApp
    • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
    • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
    • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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    Cons
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • UI can be less than intuitive at times
    • reporting on the actual amount of space utilised can be misleading
    • Upgrading to additional storage if not specc'd correctly can be very expensive.
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    NetApp
    • Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
    • Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
    • Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
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    Usability
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    It sits nicely ontop of VMWare and is easy enough to use. Some improvements to the UI could be done, such as placing buttons where it is expected to have them not in unusual places, so you have to hunt for them. The backup and restore is intuitive and makes things super easy if you need to do a quick rollback. Space savings on multiple VMs and backups means we are backing up more than we need which gives us confidence in what we do. Updating the system is also fairly easy and their support has always been fantastic. They will contact us if they detect any issues, usually before we notice them!
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    NetApp
    Our organizations primary storage platform is NetApp AFF-A900 nodes. All our storage requirements, be it storage visible to our compute either using FC or NFS is through these nodes. The shares or CIFS too are setup on these nodes. We also use the fabric pool to write the data to NetApps Storage Grid
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    Support Rating
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Support is very good. With proactive support, you are supported by an engineer in North America who answers the phone and immediately begins assisting with your issue. The folks I have dealt with in the last several years have been very skilled and it is rare to have a ticket open for more than a day or two. Issues affecting production are dealt with appropriately and are escalated within the support organization.
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    NetApp
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We have decided to sign with Nutanix. We feel they are improving technology and are just a better software now.
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    NetApp
    I have been an IBM and EMC storage customer. I used EMC CX and VMX series SANs. I have used IBM Shark SANs before that. Much has changed over the years. It is my experience that Netapp has shown a great deal more innovation with large leaps in technology, ease of use and an aggressive progress while the two other vendors that I have experience with are more tied to their legacy technologies.
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    Return on Investment
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • HPE SimpliVity provided us with the ability to replace our existing infrastructure with a solution that provided better backup and recovery, and an off-site DR solution, at a lower price point than other solutions.
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    NetApp
    • ROI has been tremendous as it has come in handy in all the scenarios we were looking at
    • Users and admins both happy with the overall performance and management is happy that they got a good deal from reseller.
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