We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"It is extremely stable."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The solution is very stable."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"The power switch on the hardware is located in a poor location where it can accidentally be pushed. In an update, they should solve this issue so people do not push it accidentally to have their service go down. A possible solution is the switch should be inside."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"I have not seen ROI."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"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."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in HCI with 14 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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