HPE SimpliVity - A Must for Smaller Orgs.
October 09, 2024

HPE SimpliVity - A Must for Smaller Orgs.

Thomas Blackwood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with HPE SimpliVity

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.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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.
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!

Do you think HPE SimpliVity delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with HPE SimpliVity's feature set?

Yes

Did HPE SimpliVity live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of HPE SimpliVity go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy HPE SimpliVity again?

Yes

Small business will benefit greatly. It will combine many different pieces of hardware and quite literally simplify your footprint. The space savings and constant backups are a strong selling point and work as well as advertised. The failover between HA nodes is also seamless.

Larger enterprises would be better suited for a proper server stack / accelerator or just move to cloud.

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