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Easy to Use: Many users have found HPE SimpliVity to be user-friendly, especially for those who are already familiar with VMware. The …
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What is HPE SimpliVity?
HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.
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Easy to Use: Many users have found HPE SimpliVity to be user-friendly, especially for those who are already familiar with VMware. The intuitive interface and seamless integration with existing VMware environments make it easy for users to navigate and manage their virtual infrastructure efficiently.
Impressive Data Protection: The data protection capabilities of HPE SimpliVity have received high praise from multiple reviewers. They specifically mentioned complete server backups and replication every 15 minutes, ensuring that their critical data is always protected against potential disasters or system failures. This robust backup and recovery solution gives users peace of mind knowing that their information is secure and easily recoverable.
Fast Restores and Test Instances: Users appreciate the quick and easy access to test instances or refreshes provided by HPE SimpliVity. With just a few clicks, they can restore complete server instances in just a matter of seconds, significantly reducing downtime during system maintenance or troubleshooting activities. This feature not only saves time but also increases productivity by allowing users to quickly get back up and running without any disruptions.
Difficulties with Support: Some users have found that contacting support in the past was not helpful, especially when trying to remediate VMware. They expressed frustration with the lack of assistance received.
Licensing Costs for Memory Upgrade: Many users have expressed a desire to add more memory without incurring additional licensing costs. This trade-off between integration and cost has been a concern for several customers.
Complex Upgrades: Users have mentioned that although upgrades are now better than before, they still find them to be complex and challenging to navigate. Some reviewers have struggled with the upgrade process and feel that it could be simplified further.
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July 14, 2021
SimpliVity. It Simply Works!
HPE SimpliVity reduces complexity in our virtualization stack. The software combines along with HPE hardware and an accelerator card (there are also flavors without the accelerator) to provide an NFS datastore for our VMs. Because of the rationalization that the software and accelerator is doing, the number of writes is reduced as it examines to see if the underlying data already exists somewhere else. This also makes it very easy to clone or backup VMs as only change data needs to be restored or cloned. This functionality can be controlled via the VMware console.
- Backup/Clone VMs.
- Reduce stack complexity.
- Upgrades are better than they used to be, but still complex.
- Make existing RapidDR product integral, versus a separate licensed component.
August 27, 2020
HPE SimpliVity Review
We use it across our entire organization for our infrastructure. We decided to go to SimpliVity and virtualization as we faced upgrading our old physical servers.
- Ease of use
- Replication is very easy
- Works well with VEEAM
- Training is poor, as we did most of our own.
- R&D is suboptimal
- I think it was great product 4 years ago but I have not seen much improvement since.
September 10, 2018
Impressive restores
I am in the College of Life Sciences at BYU. HPE SimpliVity is running all of our production servers, including webservers, databases, file servers, web servers, web proxy, monitoring and log servers, etc.
- HPE SimpliVity has built in incremental backups, and the restores are incredibly fast. I have seen 2TB VMs restored in 20 seconds.
- HPE SimpliVity has also made DR/BC a possibility. We have purchased and off-site DR box at a fraction of what tradition DR would cost.
- As mentioned, HPE SimpliVity has built in backups. The one issue is that those backups are stored on primary storage, so depending on retention schedules, you may find yourself running out of space.
September 10, 2018
HPE SimpliVity delivers a SMB Enterprise level capabilities at an affordable price point.
HPE SimpliVity is our core sever platform for our business across two datacenters.
Both of those datacenters are production and DR for the alternate site.
Data protection is the biggest problem this solution addressed.
Also, we were in need of a refresh and this solution offered much more all with a single vendor, easy to use interface and a competitive price.
- If you know how to use VMware then you essentially already know how to manage HPE SimpliVity. Ease of use is key for us since we are a small shop.
- The data protection inherent is impressive. We have complete server backups for our Tier 1 servers locally and replicated every 15 minutes.
- We have application upgrades frequently that require end use testing. We also have a in house developer for certain focuses. Test instances or refreshes are just minutes away. The actual complete server instance restore takes just a few seconds.
- I haven't contacted support lately...however in the past I wasn't able to remediate VMware without support given the integration. A trade off.
- 4 years being a customer, the initial sizing is now close to being an issue. I wish I could just add more memory without licensing costs. Another trade off but I've been more than pleased with our servers' performance.
- Again...I haven't asked lately so this may be handled differently now. I'll investigate soon or upgrade altogether given the age of equipment.
- I can't think of anything else...
September 06, 2018
HPE Simplivity works well for us.
We mainly use it for remote access (VMware horizon view,) but it does house a few other servers.
- De-dupe
- Compression
- Backup
- Speed
- Expensive
- Not scalable from a storage standpoint after implementation. Well, not easily.
- Nothing else I can think of
September 06, 2018
After you compare the others, go ahead and buy SimpliVity!
We use SimpliVity throughout the organization. SimpliVity has addressed many problems with speed, bandwidth and ease of use for us. Before SimpliVity we had real issues with getting backups done after hours, now it is done org.-wide within minutes.
- Speed, speed speed. Everything happens quickly and you see the results in front of you.
- Time savings. I no longer need to watch VCenter all the time, I can move on to other projects
- I would like to be able to move my data out of SimpliVity easier, onto another media for backup/storage. That is the only thing I can think of.
December 01, 2016
SimpliVity - Simplicity in the server room!
Currently we have 4 Simplivity OmniCubes in our environment. Two of them are hosing our Virtual Servers and the other two are hosting our VDI environment. We are using this solution to host all of our servers and VDI for the whole organization.
With the Simplivity OmniCubes we have greatly increased our backups as well as made a huge performance gain in our computing. Since everything is in one box we have been able to scale out our environment and made an easier path for upgrading and budgeting as we can add an additional two boxes each year to grow out our environment.
- 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.
- A better dashboard to explain where the efficiencies are coming from.
- More types of boxes. Possibly a smaller server just for DR purposes.
- Bigger File level recovery. Currently you can only restore 4GB files at a time.