--- title: HPE SimpliVity Reviews meta_title: 'HPE SimpliVity Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 24 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how HPE SimpliVity works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 24 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # HPE SimpliVity Reviews **Vendor:** HP Development Company **Category:** [Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions ](https://www.g2.com/categories/hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 24 ## About HPE SimpliVity The HPE SimpliVity 380 gives IT leaders the agility and economics of the cloud with the control and governance of on-premises IT. ## HPE SimpliVity Reviews ### 1. Effortless Virtual Environment Management with SimpliVity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2026 **What do you like best about HPE SimpliVity?** SimpliVity makes managing our virtual environment feel effortless. It’s a solid, fast solution that keeps things running smoothly. **What do you dislike about HPE SimpliVity?** Upgrading can be quite cumbersome, and it often ends up requiring help from support. **What problems is HPE SimpliVity solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimpliVity has provided us with a fast, reliable virtualized environment and a solid hypervisor solution. ### 2. HPE Simplivity 2600 Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** dileep k. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about HPE SimpliVity?** management, protection, and performance all these 3 for 1, it's a major advantage. I feel HPE as a brand maintains the Quality and Market Cost Competence and virtualization power **What do you dislike about HPE SimpliVity?** as entier chassis is of Plug and Play type easy configure there is no major disadvantage to be noted, just a perfect and well trained person can maintain all the services with the choice of own platform to use eg: RapidDR, VMware, vSphere **Recommendations to others considering HPE SimpliVity:** I would recommend not just one product but all the HPE products which stands out of the crowd in the performance and build **What problems is HPE SimpliVity solving and how is that benefiting you?** cloud-based virtual Environment which solves me hell lot of money and Management stuff, and Hardware Parts do fail at one point, but all the parts are Plug and play so easy replacement that entier hardware to be replaced saves me money and time ### 3. Hyperconverged solution for your high availability needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2022 **What do you like best about HPE SimpliVity?** Quality of the hardware and reliability when set up properly. **What do you dislike about HPE SimpliVity?** The hardware is noisy, and support is not that great, for anything advanced support is needed. **What problems is HPE SimpliVity solving and how is that benefiting you?** We tried to lower the footprint in our data center by deploying a hyper-converged solution. We have less space in the rack and a built-in backup policy in place that allows us to easily replicate from site to site. Storage is integrated and is hardware is rock-solid. ### 4. Affordable and start with few nodes **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manjunath M. | Enterprise Accounts Manager , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2022 **What do you like best about HPE SimpliVity?** Affordable and can start with Two nodes. can go live with the HPE DL series, it was easy to install for our experienced engineers who were not trained in this technology **What do you dislike about HPE SimpliVity?** Licenses on virtualization, which we have to buy separately. Also, we were facing price competition for the same products from different sources of other partners who were not there at beginning **Recommendations to others considering HPE SimpliVity:** For a start-up to move into a low budget with Two nodes this is very useful. HPE support is good **What problems is HPE SimpliVity solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are trying for a customer's DR site at an affordable cost, we were able to give a solution with Two nodes only with existing servers licenses. This has helped us to win the order ### 5. Best Performance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about HPE SimpliVity?** I was using this before. The performance of HP 380 is very high, It does not fail even in a complicated situation. I always recommend HPE 380 for your data center oprations. **What do you dislike about HPE SimpliVity?** Currently I don't have anything like that **What problems is HPE SimpliVity solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am running multiple VM's inside the server, The scalability is gud and compatible compared to other products. ### 6. HPE Simplivity review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2021 **What do you like best about HPE SimpliVity?** performance enhancement with ease of administration **What do you dislike about HPE SimpliVity?** The solution carries a compulsion compatibility matrix for scale-out and upgrades within exact OEM only, which may result in higher upgrade cost in future. **What problems is HPE SimpliVity solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides excellent enhancement on performance within a limited footprint. ## HPE SimpliVity Discussions - [What is the difference between HPE SimpliVity and synergy?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-hpe-simplivity-and-synergy) - [What is one of the benefits of HPE SimpliVity data protection features?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/hpe-simplivity-380-what-is-one-of-the-benefits-of-hpe-simplivity-data-protection-features) - [What is one of the benefits of HPE SimpliVity data protection features?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-one-of-the-benefits-of-hpe-simplivity-data-protection-features) - [What is a key distinguishing feature for HPE SimpliVity solutions?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/hpe-simplivity-380-what-is-a-key-distinguishing-feature-for-hpe-simplivity-solutions) - [What is a key distinguishing feature for HPE SimpliVity solutions?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-key-distinguishing-feature-for-hpe-simplivity-solutions) - [View HPE SimpliVity pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/hpe-simplivity/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+20%3A58%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d76b5fea-0932-438b-a037-d546d982eadb&secure%5Btoken%5D=024aaae960a4a48a71b1cec0b8a377c568d728e114dd76dbbc6f87b4f839ace9&format=llm_user) ## HPE SimpliVity Integrations - [VMware ESXi](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-esxi/reviews) ## HPE SimpliVity Features **Core Functions** - Server Virtualization - Storage Virtualization - Network Virtualization **General Functionality** - Dynamic Scaling - High Availability - Data Security - Backup and Recovery **Configuration** - Appliance Independence - Hardware Integration **Agentic AI - Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning - Decision Making ## Top HPE SimpliVity Alternatives - [VxRail](https://www.g2.com/products/vxrail/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (32 reviews) - [Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)](https://www.g2.com/products/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-nci/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (293 reviews) - [VMware vSAN](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (261 reviews)