HPE SimpliVity

HPE SimpliVity

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HPE SimpliVity	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.	N/A

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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products	HPE SimpliVity Joshua Van Camp Network Administration Supervisor Chose HPE SimpliVity My organization was a relatively early adapter back in 2014. Nutanix was really the only other competitor we were aware of at the time. We felt the data management and integration features of SimpliVity were superior to Nutanix. Pricing was also very competitive from … Incentivized Helpful? TM Tom Mockus Director of IT Chose HPE SimpliVity We have decided to sign with Nutanix. We feel they are improving technology and are just a better software now. Incentivized Helpful? Brent Runyan Systems Engineer/Architect Chose HPE SimpliVity In our testing, HPE SimpliVity had slightly better data redundancy than Nutanix. Incentivized Helpful? Chad Benfield Director of IT Chose HPE SimpliVity There were not many others > 4 years ago that stacked up. Nutanix at the time just was too pricey compared to what HPE SimpliVity offered. Incentivized Helpful? David Clark IT Director Chose HPE SimpliVity Support by HPE has been an issue but it has improved dramatically. Less costly. Incentivized Helpful? Jim Malone Information Technology Manager Chose HPE SimpliVity We have used EMC in the past Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose HPE SimpliVity SimpliVity OmniCube supported NVidia Grid cards when we did our POC where Nutanix didn't. SimpliVity also had a better business case for us as it gave us the DR planning that we wanted as well as a way to be innovating and reduce our space usage in the server room. SimpliVity … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Ease of use Pro Backup process Pro Incredibly fast
Top Cons	Minus Licensing costs Minus Nothing else Minus Backup storage

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User Ratings
	HPE SimpliVity
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	5.5 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HPE SimpliVity
Likelihood to Recommend	Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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! Incentivized Chad Benfield Director of IT Read full review
Pros	Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Upgrades are better than they used to be, but still complex. Make existing RapidDR product integral, versus a separate licensed component. Incentivized Joshua Van Camp Network Administration Supervisor Read full review
Support Rating	Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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. Incentivized Joshua Van Camp Network Administration Supervisor Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Hewlett Packard Enterprise We have decided to sign with Nutanix. We feel they are improving technology and are just a better software now. Incentivized TM Tom Mockus Director of IT Read full review
Return on Investment	Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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. Incentivized Brent Runyan Systems Engineer/Architect Read full review
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