Name: HPE SimpliVity
Rating: 7.1 (22 reviews)
Author: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Batch Management Software

Feature Management

Innovation Management

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Development

Classroom Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Calendar

Collaboration

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Enterprise Content Management

Statistical Analysis

Visitor Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Digital Banking

Finance and Accounting

ACA Compliance

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Leadership Development

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Access Gateways

Archiving

Cloud Storage

Configuration Management Databases

Disk Cloning

Email Encryption

Fraud Detection

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Log Management

Network Performance Monitoring

Office Migration and Repair

SIP Trunking

Software Asset Management

Telecom Expense Management (TEM)

Vendor Risk Management

Virtual Data Room

Web Scraping

WiFi Hotspot

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Blogging

Content Management

Ecommerce Personalization

Email Marketing

Enterprise Marketing Management

Market Intelligence

Market Research

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Marketing

Web Analytics

Marketing

Job Site Management

Project Management

Waste Management

Writing and Proofreading Tools

Professional Services

Customer Onboarding

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Performance Management

Sales

Fleet Management

Membership Management

Municipal

Rental Property Management

Roofing

Warranty Management

Vertical-Specific

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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.

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.

HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.

HPE SimpliVity

A hyper-converged infrastructure is a software-defined app-centric storage infrastructure coupled with a compact efficient scale-out hardware infrastructure, prioritizing simplicity and lowered maintenance cost with high performance virtualization over a hardware-focused "tweakable" infrastructure with many separable components.

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

HPE SimpliVity RapidDR Recovery Plan Demo

HPE SimpliVity REST API Demonstration

Are you planning to upgrade or modernise your datacentre solutions? If so, you should be considering one important innovation – hyperconverged systems. 

Hyperconvergence combines storage, computing and networking into one single system, cutting complexity and enabling cloud-like economics and scale. HPE SimpliVity takes hyperconvergence further by ensuring you retain the performance, reliability and availability you need in your datacentre – all while freeing up to 90% capacity across both storage and backup combined. 

This webinar covers:
• An overview of hyperconvergence 
• HPE hyperconverged strategy
• HPE SimpliVity for AI-driven operations – what’s new and how it can benefit your business
• Demo of HPE SimpliVity in action
• Live Q&A session

HPE’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is simple: 3 clicks to back up, restore, move or clone a virtual machine from one single console.

HPE SimpliVity: HCI Simplified

5-Minute Demonstration of HPE SimpliVity

HPE Simplivity Demo

Brief demo of HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure shows how to back up and restore a VM in seconds. For a full demo, visit hpe.com/info/simplivity

60 Seconds to Back Up and Restore a VM with HPE SimpliVity

INNOVIX - HPE SimpliVity backup and restore demo

Docker Datacenter automation demo with ansible on HPE Simplivity

DEMO Simplivity

HPE SimpliVity Tutorial, Presented by Powerland

Likelihood to Recommend

Usability

Support Rating

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Head of ICT

HPE SimpliVity 2024-10-02 17:25:52

Cohesity Helios - unpublished, merged with Cohesity

KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)

KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)

Network Administration Supervisor

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube) 2020-02-18 10:06:46

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Director of IT

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube) 2020-08-25 10:09:37

SAP Crystal

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Visual Studio

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube) 2018-09-05 13:55:09

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Systems Engineer/Architect

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube) 2018-09-10 11:20:55

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Licensing costs

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Backup storage

Leaves room

Update process

Better dashboard

End users

Contacted support

Ease of use

Backup process

Incredibly fast

Virtual server

Key for us

Deduplication and compression

Easy to deploy

Data protection

Ability to keep

Easy to configure

Home

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems

We use HPE SimpliVity to run all our virtual machines and perform backups. It does exactly what it claims and saves space through deduplication and can take backups down to the minute level. This has meant we have been able to get rid of additional hardware as the HPE SimpliVity combines many tech stacks into one. 

 The failover capability has been essential with being able to successfully conduct DR testing and failover as well.

Minute Level Backups
Failover if running multiple nodes
Space optimisation
Management of VM's through VMWare
Restoration of VM's in seconds
Integration with Greenlake Backup and Recovery for Cloud backups

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.

We have been able to go from spending 53L per annum on backups to 23K with the HPE SimpliVity Solution
When not needing Servers, Storage, and networking and combining it all into the one we have saved a considerable amount of space and money.
The DR and backup confidence we have has meant we have been able to reduce risk and meet our cyber objectives and RPO / RTO times.

Veeam ONE, VMware vSphere, Windows Server, HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches, Synology DiskStation, Fortinet FortiGate

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.

Make restores much quicker.
Saved administrators time.

Cohesity, KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA), KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)

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.

It had a fantastic ROI compared to replacing all the physical servers.
SimpliVity takes less knowledge to understand, cutting down on staff leaning curve.
It did bring us forward in technology at the time.

Microsoft 365 Business, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity

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...

ROI has been recognized in several areas...TCO is certainly one of the main points.
Data protection has allowed us to realize minimal downtime and recovery in a disaster situation. That's priceless...
Being able to easily spin up test environments and having our support people able to do so are both huge for us.

Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio IDE, SAP Crystal

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.

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.

VMware ESXi, Exablox, Veeam Backup & Replication

HPE SimpliVity
Formerly OmniCube

Overview

What is HPE SimpliVity?