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HPE SimpliVity
Formerly OmniCube

Overview

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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Product Demos

HPE SimpliVity Tutorial, Presented by Powerland

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DEMO Simplivity

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Docker Datacenter automation demo with ansible on HPE Simplivity

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INNOVIX - HPE SimpliVity backup and restore demo

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

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HPE Simplivity Demo

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Product Details

What is HPE SimpliVity?

HPE SimpliVity Technical Details

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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HPE Simplivity works well for us.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 06, 2018
DC
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE SimpliVity
2 years of experience
We mainly use it for remote access (VMware horizon view,) but it does house a few other servers.
  • De-dupe
  • Compression
  • Backup
  • Speed
Cons
  • Expensive
  • Not scalable from a storage standpoint after implementation. Well, not easily.
  • Nothing else I can think of
Unstructured data, exchange and remote access.
  • Better remote access
  • Happier employees
  • Less time supporting users because of reliability
  • Small footprint
Support by HPE has been an issue but it has improved dramatically. Less costly.

After you compare the others, go ahead and buy SimpliVity!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 06, 2018
JM
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE SimpliVity
3 years of experience
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
Cons
  • 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.
I have tested several of the competition, nothing matches up.
  • We have saved time on many levels.
  • We are saving money by no longer needing multiple products
  • We save power consumption
We have used EMC in the past

HPE SimpliVity delivers a SMB Enterprise level capabilities at an affordable price point.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 10, 2018
CB
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE SimpliVity
4 years of experience

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.
Cons
  • 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...

I only know what I know...which is my IT world.

Having two datacenters that were physical servers attached to a SAN that "attempted" to replicate and then migrating.

For a SMB small IT shop that happens to have two datacenters already in place...this has been ideal.

I can have a generalist maintain the system and we have a private cloud for DR with hardly any effort...the biggest gain by far!


  • 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.

There were not many others > 4 years ago that stacked up.

Nutanix at the time just was too pricey compared to what HPE SimpliVity offered.

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