VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged compete in the hyper-converged infrastructure market, aiming to simplify data center operations. VxRail seems to have an upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and strong ROI from automation and integrated management tools, though HPE is recognized for cost-effectiveness and fast provisioning.
Features: VxRail offers easy upgrades through VxRail Manager, high performance with vSAN for software-defined storage, and single call resolution support. It provides environment flexibility and integrated infrastructure for simplified management and quick deployment. HPE Hyper Converged features reliable performance with integrated backup solutions, ease of management across multiple locations, and fast provisioning at a competitive price point.
Room for Improvement: VxRail users face challenges with patch deployment and initial setup complexities and seek improved automation features and better support for scalability. Enhanced inter-product integration and streamlined deployment processes are also desired. HPE Hyper Converged users suggest price reductions, improved storage performance, and enhanced support, alongside more flexible scalability and simplified installation.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VxRail supports on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, offering flexibility. It has robust customer service praised for proactive insights and seamless support. HPE Hyper Converged supports hybrid and public cloud deployments and is noted for competitive pricing and ease of installation. Users benefit from quick problem resolution but suggest improvements to technical support.
Pricing and ROI: VxRail is viewed as expensive, especially for SMBs, with significant initial investment costs. However, users report a strong ROI due to reduced management complexities and decreased power consumption. HPE Hyper Converged provides competitive pricing compared to other virtualization solutions, offering benefits from its buyback policy and flexible payment options, indicating better cost-effectiveness in some scenarios.
HPE Hyper Converged solutions combine intuitive software with the reliability of a world class platform to deliver cloud-like simplicity to your business.
Now, IT can become an internal service provider to end-users by quickly delivering the resources they need for application development and consumption. With HPE Hyper Converged systems companies can operate with cloud efficiency to simplify IT operations with one comprehensive control panel to deploy, monitor, analyze and update – with a single generalist; consume with cloud flexibility to deliver a cloud-like experience, with multi-tenant workspaces that eliminate stranded resources and flexes on demand; and deploy at cloud speed to empower developers and lines-of-business with a self-service portal that can instantly compose and recompose VMs in minutes. Built-in enterprise grade features, such as performance and resiliency enable HPE Hyper Converged systems to easily handle a wide variety of virtualized workloads, including general purpose virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and cloud.
VxRail is a hyper-converged appliance based on VMware virtual SAN Software and is jointly engineered and built with VMware, for VMware, to enhance Vmware. VxRail software-defined architecture simplifies compute, storage, virtualization, and management. It will safeguard performance, reliability, and flexibility across your organization with a broad range of workloads and applications from business-critical to next-gen. With VxRail, you are covered.
VxRail is a single turn-key appliance that is a validated, fully integrated, pre-configured, pre-tested solution and offers non-disruptive scaling. Every node includes compute storage and IO. All-flash configurations can contain between 12-28 cores per node. The storage capacity options run from 7.6 TB to 19TB with either 256 GB or 512GB of memory. Hybrid appliances may have 6-20 cores per node, 3.6 TB to 10 TB of storage capacity, and 24GB to 256 GB of memory.
VxRail offers high availability fail-over, an active/active stretch cluster, and VSan Kernal integration. VxRail is a power-edged server with APIs built on automation. There are over 15 million different combinations of hardware available with VxRail. VxRail provides a simple, cost-effective solution that solves a large range of use cases. Additionally, you also get a mixed workloads automated system that is backed with fully automated system updates, and complete end-to-end lifecycle management all in a single two-rack appliance.
VxRail is a value-added suitable solution for distributed small to mid-sized enterprises, remote offices, private clouds, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). You choose the deployment option that best suits your organizational needs, from appliance to integrated rack offerings, with or without networking, and it will be delivered to you, ready to deploy out-of-box.
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Reviews from Real Users
VxRail is an all-in-one solution: "You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
VxRail is remarkable: “The cover points feature in VxRail is remarkable. It's unique. It has an intervention failover system as well as an automatic failover system, reaching clusters existing in VxRail…”
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