We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and VxRail based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, VxRail seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers found HPE SimpliVity to be more difficult to deploy and more expensive to purchase than VxRail.
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The solution is very stable."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"The update process is very convenient."
"The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"One-click upgrade is valuable because upgrading an environment that is considered a traditional one is something that we never do or are never going to complete. It is very time-consuming for my team. With the one-click upgrade, it is much quicker. There are preparation stages, but it takes less time, so we are also saving time in the daily administration."
"It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability."
"I have found the vSAN is highly flexible. The documentation is good and the interface of the solution is responsive and fast. The interface has everything you need to manage the solution, such as the VxRail and VMware integration. You can manage the hardware from within the VMware plasma pan."
"This is a great product."
"They require more media visibility."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"There is a limitation on the number of nodes."
"The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes."
"There are still some features which aren't built into Cisco, like virtualized networking, that use its applications. However, these can be purchased through another product as an additional licensing cost to us."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
"You cannot install another operating system such as Microsoft or Hyperflex or Nutanix. We have also had a hardware problem."
"While VxRail offers compatibility with AMD processors, its capabilities in this area could benefit from further development."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 122 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI, Dell PowerFlex and Scale Computing HC3, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Hyper Converged and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. VxRail report.
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Hi, Refer to your questions if you are a COO of a small company then both solutions would be costly as a minimum of 3 nodes solution is required. Both are good at their places. Let's say, VxRail is deeply engineered with VMware and they have strong integration and performance testing results. in terms of expansion, federation, compression/deduplication, etc., is much more improved. Whereas HPE SimpliVity used its own storage virtualization software and backup software. Whereas in VxRail you can also use any backup software. Apart from the discussion, my suggestion would be to go with simple X86 Servers(any OEM) with Sangfor( they have built-in administrative software (i.e. VCenter), built-in backup (no need to buy any other software), multi-hypervisor support, cost-effective even if you plan to provide SaaS service you can easily do it from your company immediately. They also provide vNGFW, vADC, vIAM, etc. It is an end-to-end HCI Solution with Security support included. Prices are very reasonable(I don't know your region). Thanks