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 most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"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."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"They offer top-tier support."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are ease of management and ease of applying updates."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"The major advantage is the blueprint. You do not need to separately manage the sand or network part because it all gets virtualized."
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar 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."
"VxRail has improved out organization because we are trying to be a little more proactive and elastic. We are trying to change our conventional approach to development."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
"The support protocols have changed after Broadcom acquired VMware."
"The price should come down a little bit. It has become better than it was at the beginning. There was a really big price difference between a hyper-converged infrastructure and the classic servers and storage. The gap is lessening, however, it's still there."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"Some of the features of the hyperconverged infrastructure could be integrated with external storage. Right now, for example, if I have surveillance going, I need to purchase very cheap storage. So, an integration between the hyperconverged infrastructure and external storage would be good."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
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