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.
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The update process is very convenient."
"The stability is very good. We haven't had any issues at all. There aren't bugs or glitches. There aren't system crashes or anything of that nature."
"The technical support is very helpful and answers questions whenever we have issues with the product."
"The tool's price is competitive and it is easy to use."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation and integration points with other automation tools."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"The SCL database sends out a warning and you have to download the adjacent file from the Dell website. You have to upload it and retest it. We cannot always connect our systems to the internet which means we sometimes miss these important updates."
"The initial setup was not that easy, it was a medium difficulty level."
"Technically speaking, the vCenter and the administration of the integration of the vCenter could be improved."
"My main issue so far is that the installation created a default datacenter name of "Marvin" and it cannot be changed."
"We spend around six months waiting for a confirmation and firmware upgrade to confirm this step."
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
"We would like to see integrating with Nutanix. Currently, we are working on integrating the two to see if there is any value in doing so."
"We'd like to see more automation capabilities in the future."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, 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