HPE SimpliVity vs StorMagic SvSAN comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and StorMagic are both solutions in the HCI category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while StorMagic is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.6. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 6.1% mindshare in HCI, compared to StorMagic’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of StorMagic users who would recommend it.

HPE SimpliVity

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88% willing to recommend

StorMagic SvSAN

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN compete in the hyperconverged infrastructure market. HPE SimpliVity has the upper hand with its advanced data management capabilities and robust integration within VMware environments, making it ideal for comprehensive data protection, while StorMagic SvSAN offers cost-effective and simplified solutions for edge environments focusing more on high availability.

Features: HPE SimpliVity is distinguished by its advanced data management capabilities such as efficient deduplication, backup, and disaster recovery, achieved through its Data Virtualization Platform, which ensures rapid data replication and minimal storage footprint. Users value its fast deployment and management via the vSphere client. StorMagic SvSAN, designed for edge environments, emphasizes high availability and platform independence while being a cost-effective solution. Its flexibility to work with existing hardware without needing dedicated SAN resources is highlighted as an advantage.

Room for Improvement: HPE SimpliVity could enhance automation in backup and replication, expand hypervisor support beyond vCenter, and improve proactive monitoring and intuitive management tools, alongside balancing replicas more effectively. StorMagic SvSAN would benefit from a user interface overhaul, support for multi-node clusters, and integration features like data compression and deduplication, which are currently absent.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both solutions are praised for ease of deployment. HPE SimpliVity's deployment is straightforward, especially in VMware setups, though its transition to an HPE product has led to slower support response times for some users. StorMagic SvSAN's deployment is highly efficient for edge environments, maintaining responsive and comparable customer support quality.

Pricing and ROI: HPE SimpliVity is competitively priced with an all-inclusive feature set, offering significant ROI despite a higher initial cost through reduced complexity and superior data management. StorMagic SvSAN, being relatively cheaper, is considered a cost-effective solution for smaller environments, providing substantial savings thanks to its pricing strategy based on storage needs, without compromising on flexibility.

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HPE SimpliVity vs. StorMagic SvSAN

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

4.8

HPE SimpliVity offers varying ROI timelines, significant cost savings, reduced complexity, and easy VM expansion, reported by users.

Sentiment score

7.6

StorMagic SvSAN reduces costs by 60%, offering ROI of 40% over five years, saving $20-$30,000 annually.

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StorMagic SvSAN helped us save around sixty percent on previous costs.

Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

With StorMagic, we calculate the return on investment to be about two years, compared to other solutions we could have adopted.

Magni Ilario

Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

StorMagic SvSAN has delivered great benefits in overall cost-efficiency since it is an integral part of our complete solutions for clients.

reviewer2599320

Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.7

HPE SimpliVity is praised for responsive, knowledgeable support, despite minor issues with response times and documentation accessibility.

Sentiment score

8.6

StorMagic SvSAN provides excellent 24/7 customer support with swift, knowledgeable assistance, ensuring high user satisfaction and smooth resolutions.

The technical support from the HPE side is excellent, and I give them 10 out of 10.

Mohammed Lokman Hossen

Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would rate technical support from HPE SimpliVity eight out of ten.

Mohsin Rasheed

Presales engineer and consultant at Hybrid Tech

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I rate them at a nine out of ten due to their prompt responses and effective solutions to our issues.

Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

They respond rapidly to support requests and provide assistance beyond their scope.

reviewer2599320

Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees

StorMagic offers exemplary customer and technical support, ensuring excellent service and timely assistance that enhances my clients' experience.

Kimmo Karhu

Senior Solution Consultant at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.9

HPE SimpliVity offers easy scalability but may face limitations and flexibility issues in large enterprise environments.

Sentiment score

7.5

StorMagic SvSAN provides moderate scalability for edge environments, suitable for SMBs, with limitations in complex or large enterprises.

With HPE, customers can scale up the HPE SimpliVity solution anytime.

Mohammed Lokman Hossen

Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

HPE SimpliVity is scalable, as it can be scaled in terms of addition of nodes.

Mohsin Rasheed

Presales engineer and consultant at Hybrid Tech

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We can simply add more ESX hosts to a cluster and deploy additional controllers without any issues.

Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

StorMagic SvSAN is easy to scale.

reviewer2599320

Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees

Scaling CPU and servers can be costly due to increased licensing fees beyond two nodes.

Kimmo Karhu

Senior Solution Consultant at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.5

HPE SimpliVity is highly stable and reliable, with most issues linked to external factors, earning high user ratings.

Sentiment score

8.8

StorMagic SvSAN offers excellent stability and efficiency, ensuring seamless performance with minimal maintenance and no downtime or data loss.

From HPE's side, it is stable, and customers find it easy to manage and easy to grow.

Mohammed Lokman Hossen

Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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StorMagic SvSAN has demonstrated flawless stability over the past six years, with no reported downtime, bugs, or glitches.

Kimmo Karhu

Senior Solution Consultant at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Its ability to seamlessly migrate running machines to another host during maintenance ensures uninterrupted operations and a transparent user experience.

reviewer2619357

Information Technology Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The stability of StorMagic SvSAN is excellent.

Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

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Room For Improvement

HPE SimpliVity requires improved integration, faster updates, enhanced features, simplified interface, better support, and expanded cloud compatibility.

StorMagic SvSAN's base version is limited in features, scalability, and usability, needing enhancements in security, management, and training.

In the future, if HPE integrates HPE SimpliVity with VM essential, that will be a great combination.

Mohammed Lokman Hossen

Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Pricing could be an area for improvement, as there are many other options that are very cost-effective compared to HPE SimpliVity or converged solutions.

Mohsin Rasheed

Presales engineer and consultant at Hybrid Tech

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It would be beneficial to have a central place for configurations, similar to VMware vCenter.

Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

Ideally, the console should provide plugins or similar configuration options for seamless integration with these tools.

reviewer2599320

Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees

Unauthorized access to the SvSAN server could cause significant damage.

reviewer2618532

Network Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

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Setup Cost

HPE SimpliVity offers cost-effective hyper-converged solutions with competitive pricing and lower total ownership costs compared to alternatives.

StorMagic SvSAN offers cost-efficient, flexible pricing, 20-30% lower than competitors, simplifying licensing by usable storage capacity, without SAN hardware costs.

Standalone HPE SimpliVity is more expensive than other OEMs and solutions.

Mohsin Rasheed

Presales engineer and consultant at Hybrid Tech

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The pricing model, based on the usable storage capacity, is simple and predictable.

Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

I would rate the cost a one out of ten with ten being the most costly.

reviewer2599320

Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees

Choosing the maximum capacity proved cost-effective, especially compared to alternatives like VMware vSAN, which would have been significantly more expensive based on VCP cores.

reviewer2618532

Network Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

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Valuable Features

HPE SimpliVity provides efficient data management with deduplication, backup, and recovery, enhancing performance and reducing complexity and costs.

StorMagic SvSAN offers high availability, easy integration, quick setup, and cost-effectiveness with only two servers required.

The greatest benefit is that customers don't need multiple hardware solutions from other vendors. Virtualization comes in a single box.

Mohammed Lokman Hossen

Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

HPE SimpliVity is a complete solution for converged infrastructure, having its own local data store for the virtual machines and workloads.

Mohsin Rasheed

Presales engineer and consultant at Hybrid Tech

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I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex.

Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

For our solution in production plants, stability is crucial.

Magni Ilario

Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

StorMagic engineers were very helpful in setting up the system, remoting into our system to assist, which was very beneficial.

Kanna Arumugam

IT Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

HPE SimpliVity

Ranking in HCI

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

155

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

StorMagic SvSAN

Ranking in HCI

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Storage (SDS) (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the HCI category, the mindshare of HPE SimpliVity is 6.1%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StorMagic SvSAN is 2.2%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

HCI Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE SimpliVity	6.1%
StorMagic SvSAN	2.2%
Other	91.7%

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Featured Reviews

Mohammed Lokman Hossen

Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Has integrated solutions and rapid recovery made management smoother and more reliable

There is the latest update from HPE regarding HPE SimpliVity. For virtualization, HPE has to depend on other manufacturers, OEMs such as VMware or Hyper-V. Recently, HPE declared the VM essential virtualization solution. In the future, if HPE integrates HPE SimpliVity with VM essential, that will be a great combination. Functionality-wise, I am totally satisfied with HPE SimpliVity, but for improvement, if HPE integrates its own virtualization solution, this combination and integration will be beneficial because this integration can be configured with the cloud-based system. A VM can be uploaded to the cloud from this, which will be advantageous for backup to other sites.

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Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

Allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain

What we like the most is how easy it is to implement. I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex. StorMagic SvSAN does not have hardware-specific requirements and is hypervisor agnostic, which makes it easier compared to competitors like HPE SimpliVity that are limited to specific hardware. This solution has allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

10%

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	67
Midsize Enterprise	49
Large Enterprise	80

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

How does HPE Simplivity compare with VMware vSAN?

HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that is primarily geared to mid-sized companies. We researched VMware vSAN but found HPE was a better option for us. HPE SimpliVity has ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE SimpliVity?

Standalone HPE SimpliVity is more expensive than other OEMs and solutions. Regarding the software side, VMware is costing significantly more nowadays compared to other solutions in the market. The ...

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What needs improvement with HPE SimpliVity?

I haven't noticed anything that should be better in HPE SimpliVity, as I haven't done extensive work on this platform; I have only completed a couple of projects recently. Pricing could be an area ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorMagic SvSAN?

I find the pricing moderate. However, since some features should be given in the default price, I find it a little bit on the higher side with missing a few features.

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What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?

Some advanced features feel like they should be included by default, which are paid. The scalability is a bit limited for me. The advanced features that could be included in the base version are th...

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What is your primary use case for StorMagic SvSAN?

I use StorMagic SvSAN for the virtualization of my storage. I mainly use it for the high availability at the small and remote sites that are not accessible to me.

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Also Known As

SimpliVity, HPE HCI

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Overview

HPE SimpliVity provides businesses with advanced features such as inline deduplication, compression, and instant recovery, enabling efficient backup and scalability. Its integration with VMware and centralized management fosters ease of use, establishing a streamlined IT infrastructure.

HPE SimpliVity stands as a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking a robust infrastructure capable of handling diverse workloads. Its features like integrated backup and disaster recovery ensure quick restores and high availability. Known for its efficient use of storage and data processing capabilities, it helps reduce operational costs. This system offers a reliable framework for virtualized environments, enhancing disaster recovery processes, IT operations, and application hosting while supporting workloads such as Oracle, SAP, and SQL.

What are HPE SimpliVity's key features?

Inline Deduplication: Minimizes data redundancy, enhancing storage efficiency.
Compression: Optimizes storage, reducing space requirements.
Instant Recovery: Facilitates rapid restoration of data and applications.
Centralized Management: Simplifies IT operations with unified management.
Scalable Architecture: Adapts to business growth seamlessly.

What benefits should users seek in HPE SimpliVity reviews?

Cost Reduction: Achieves savings through efficient data processing and storage utilization.
High Availability: Ensures consistent service and data accessibility.
VMware Integration: Provides compatibility and smooth operations in VMware environments.
Quick Disaster Recovery: Enables swift restoration processes for continued business operations.

Organizations deploy HPE SimpliVity mainly for virtualized environments, focusing on disaster recovery, IT operations, and application hosting. Extensively used in sectors for VDI, backups, and data center tasks, it supports major workloads like Oracle and SAP, simplifying infrastructure management while ensuring high availability.

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StorMagic SvSAN is a platform-agnostic software offering high availability and ease of deployment, fitting effortlessly into existing infrastructures while being cost-effective and user-friendly.

StorMagic SvSAN delivers reliability and flexibility, requiring minimal setup time. Its compatibility with existing hardware eliminates additional purchases, making it ideal for environments without cloud connectivity. Designed for enterprises with budget constraints, SvSAN ensures high uptime and zero downtime. The software’s simplicity and maintenance efficiency make it suitable for production environments needing stability.

What are the key features of StorMagic SvSAN?

High Availability: Ensures continuous operation and uptime.
Platform-Agnostic: Compatible with existing hardware, reducing extra costs.
User-Friendly: Simple interface for easy management.
Cost-Effective: Budget-friendly solution with minimal setup time.
Flexible Licensing: Supports environments without cloud connectivity.

What benefits or ROI should you expect from StorMagic SvSAN?

Enhanced Uptime: Reduces downtime and maintains productivity.
Minimal Maintenance: Lowers operational cost and effort.
Budget-Friendly: Keeps expenses down with its cost-effective model.
Infrastructure Support: Integrates seamlessly, avoiding new hardware purchases.
Ease of Deployment: Quick installation boosts efficiency.

Industries such as manufacturing, hospitality, and remote sites use StorMagic SvSAN to boost server availability. Its cost-effectiveness suits small and medium enterprises needing a hyperconverged system supporting different storage types. Particularly beneficial for remote and edge locations, it supports areas lacking full-time IT staff or robust infrastructure.

StorMagic

Sample Customers

Red Bull Racing, Mandarin Oriental, Brigham Young University, UCLA, Merlin Entertainments, Sasa Cosmetics, Travelport, St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Princess House

Sheetz Inc., Giant Eagle, RWE Renewables, Keiser Corp., TDK, Oxford University, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Rommelsbacher, Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, Eugen Forschner GmbH

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