Name: HPE SimpliVity
Rating: 4.4 (317 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is HPE SimpliVity?

HPE SimpliVity is a hyperconverged infrastructure software designed to integrate compute, storage, and networking resources into a single solution. The software simplifies data center operations by consolidating workloads and providing data efficiency features such as deduplication, compression, and optimization. HPE SimpliVity offers backup and disaster recovery capabilities to enhance data protection strategies. It enables scalable management through a unified platform, supporting virtualized environments and reducing the complexity associated with traditional infrastructure silos. The software addresses business requirements for optimizing resource utilization, improving agility, and ensuring continuous availability of applications and services within enterprise IT environments.

Overall experience with HPE SimpliVity

Associate, Investments

50M - 250M USD, Finance (non-banking)

FAVORABLE

“Seamless Backup Experience with Simplivity Offset by Occasional Firmware Update Challenges”

4.0

May 11, 2026

Before Simplivity, our backup and DR processes felt fragile and time consuming. Now, they're quietly dependable. Policy-based replication gives us peace of mind, and those sub-minute VM restores have been a lifesaver during maintenance windows. Our VMware admins adopted it quickly because it didn't feel like learning a whole new platform. Storage savings from deduplication were better than we expected.

IT ARCHITECT

50M - 250M USD, Manufacturing

CRITICAL

“Simplivity: An In-Depth Look at HP's Integrated Backup Solution”

3.0

Nov 27, 2024

Use Simplivity to reduce and simplify the compute and storage infrastructure

About Company

Company Description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, known as a global edge-to-cloud company, concentrates on a range of technology and innovation services to connect, protect, analyze, and act on all data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, focusing on addressing business challenges through technology.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2015

Head office location

Houston, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Annual Revenue

10B-30B USD

Website

http://www.hpe.com

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HPE SimpliVity Likes & Dislikes

What I like most is that it just works. Backups and replication run on their own, no extra tools, no late-night tweaking. When a VM goes down, having it back up in under a minute feels like magic, especially when we are under pressure. Since it sits right inside vCenter, our team didn't have to learn a whole new platform. And the storage savings, way better than we expected. Honestly, it's one less thing keeping me up at night and that's worth a lot.

from my point of view HP have great key points, the most valuable for me is backup included on this solution.

One of the aspects I liked most, and which truly sets it apart from other solutions, is the ability to perform live virtual machine restoration. The restoration is virtually instantaneous, and since everything is fully integrated into the platform, no additional processes or complicated configurations are required.

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If I had to pick, we really need to get the sizing right upfront. It's not hard to add capacity later, but it's smoother and more cost effective if we plan ahead. Also, bigger firmware updates sometimes require a quick call to HPE Support to walk through which is really hectic.

maybe this solution is not easy to implement and you need high knowledge on other technologies live ESX Vmware, hardware or storage concepts. Also , i think you need to take some time to negotiate licenses and cost with your HPE provider if you want o take some good discounts.

Its focus on simplicity and integration is excellent for most environments, but when you need to adjust very specific parameters - for example, highly customized snapshot policies or non-standard network configuration.

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50M-1B USD

Finance (non-banking)

Review Source

Seamless Backup Experience with Simplivity Offset by Occasional Firmware Update Challenges

It Security & Risk Management Associate

Transportation

HPE SimpliVity in practice: real benefits and outstanding performance

Dec 30, 2025

My experience with HPE SimpliVity has been extremely positive, especially because of the way it integrates operational simplicity, performance, and data protection into a single hyperconverged platform.

IT-KOORDINATOR

Travel and Hospitality

Good value for money, personal support makes getting started easier.

May 22, 2026

We've been using the product for a short time and 2 out of 6 virtual machines are already running. Excellent advice and support.

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Manager, It Security And Risk Management

Manufacturing

Simplicity stands out for its storage optimization but is difficult to scale.

5.0

Apr 9, 2026

Its Hyperconvergence technology greatly reduces the storage you need and makes restoring a TB backup that would take hours, happen in minutes.

Software Developer

<50M USD

Services (non-Government)

Built-In Backup and Disaster Recovery Offer Enhanced Data Efficiency and Protection

Mar 27, 2026

It provides hyperconverged infrastructure with strong performance and simplified management.