HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

HPE SimpliVity

20 Reviews and Ratings

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

65 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HPE SimpliVity	Score9 out of 10	N/A	HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.	N/A
StarWind HCA	Score9 out of 10	N/A	The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution designed to reduce application downtime on a reasonable budget.	N/A

Pricing

HPE SimpliVity

StarWind HCA

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Pricing Offerings
HPE SimpliVity	StarWind HCA
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	HPE SimpliVity	StarWind HCA
Considered Both Products	Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) No answer on this topic	StarWind Dominic Bolger Head of IT in Information Technology at C C Young & Co Ltd (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind HCA In terms of features its not quite were Nutanix is as the market leader, but It stacks up well against HPE SimpliVity and Azure Stack HCI. If you want to go down the Edge route and you are an MS shop then there is potential to still do this with StarWind HyperConverged … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarWind HyperConverged Appliance was the only option that offered the performance, reliability, and high availability that we were looking for. It's also the solution that is tailored for small organizations and removes a lot of the complexities and extra components needed to … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Thacker Network & Information Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Kaonix Solutions Ltd (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We evaluated both of these systems and obtained quotes for comparison. Unfortunately both were way out of budget. StarWind however was well within budget! I have also used Nutanix, and the complexity of the management and the setup of the nodes is way more difficult to set up … Incentivized Helpful? James Fulkerson IT Manager in Information Technology at Westmoreland Mining LLC (Mining & Metals, 501-1000 employees) Chose StarWind HCA StarWind at its core functions as the big hitters in the VSAN world, but comes at a better price. Their ability to provide us with HyperConverged technology without needing flash storage or an expensive storage switch is what drove us to buy StarWind. StarWind was also a better … Incentivized Helpful? Brent Day IT Manager in Information Technology at VIP Technology Solutions Group (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We chose Starwind over Nutanix and Scale because of price and hypervisor. Both Nutanix and Scale use a customer hypervisor and we wanted to use a hypervisor we were already well versed in. Starwind won over Simplivity because of cost and support. During our talks with HP we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarwWinds virtual SAN was the most cost effective and it was pretty easy to get set up. It was the only truly redundant 2 node Hyper-converged cluster solution and it was also the most cost-effective. We tried, tested, researched, and priced 4 other Hyper-converged and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA In the end, we chose StarWind because it offered us all the benefits of an HCA with a price that was about 10 times lower than the competitors' solutions. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	HPE SimpliVity	StarWind HCA
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (8 ratings)	8.4 (61 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (4 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	7.3 (3 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.7 (53 ratings)
Support Rating	5.5 (2 ratings)	9.5 (54 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (2 ratings)