HPE SimpliVity Reviews and Pricing

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IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Nov 24, 2014

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Our RPO has gone from 8 hours to 3 hours and we can go back to 6 months of datasets.

What is most valuable?

Deduplication and backup and replication of Vm's.

How has it helped my organization?

Our RPO has gone from 8 hours to 3 hours and we can go back to 6 months of datasets.

What needs improvement?

Backup and replications automation.

For how long have I used the solution?

6 months.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No deployment issues.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No scalability issues.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

Very good.

Technical Support:

Very good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Veeam and Dell Servers and Storage.

How was the initial setup?

Very straightforward but their engineers are needed to install in our VMware environment.

What about the implementation team?

Vendor and they were excellent.

What was our ROI?

2.5 years.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes. Dell, HP and EMC products. We also looked into Zerto and Recovery Point.

What other advice do I have?

Make sure that you size the memory and CPU's to handle your entire environment.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Md. Sabbir Hossain

Customer Service Officer at STBL

Oct 11, 2021

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A stable and scalable hyperconverged infrastructure solution

Pros and Cons

"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."

"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."

What is our primary use case?

We are selling SimpliVity based on customer requirements which include HCI solutions with a lot of applications.

What is most valuable?

HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them.

What needs improvement?

It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with HPE SimpliVity for about three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

HPE SimpliVity is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

HPE SimpliVity is a scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

HPE local and global technical support is very good. Customers can reach them easily.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. There were no complications.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

SimpliVity is an HPE brand, and it comes with the advantage of easily using Hyper-V and VMware solutions. Hyper-V customers can move to VMware or use both solutions. HyperFlex for this isn't so easy.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend HPE and the processing of HPE SimpliVity to potential users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE SimpliVity an eight.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.