We compared VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Overall, VxRail is praised for its excellent performance and highly scalable infrastructure, with positive feedback on customer service and support. On the other hand, HPE Hyper Converged stands out for its seamless integration and ease of management, along with efficient customer service and support. Both products offer favorable pricing, but VxRail users emphasize flexibility and customization options, while HPE Hyper Converged users highlight scalability and efficiency. Areas for improvement include system scalability, performance enhancements, and user interface design for HPE Hyper Converged, while VxRail users call for better scalability, easier deployment, and improved customer support and documentation.
Features: VxRail is praised for its excellent performance, seamless integration, and scalability. In contrast, users appreciate HPE Hyper Converged for its simplified management, reliability, and user-friendly interface, among other features.
Pricing and ROI: The setup costs for VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged products have been regarded favorably by users. However, VxRail is noted for its flexible licensing options, while HPE Hyper Converged is praised for its ease of setup and straightforward licensing process., VxRail has shown positive ROI with increased efficiency, improved performance, lower TCO, scalability, ease of use, and reliability. Users praise its value in accelerating processes and meeting goals. On the other hand, users of HPE Hyper Converged have also reported positive ROI.
Room for Improvement: User feedback suggests that VxRail could improve scalability, compatibility, setup process, monitoring capabilities, customer support, and troubleshooting documentation. In contrast, users of HPE Hyper Converged desire enhanced scalability, performance, user interface, technical support, and documentation.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user reviews, the duration required to establish a new tech solution varies for VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged. Some users of VxRail spent three months on deployment and one week on setup, while others completed both in just a week. For HPE Hyper Converged, one user took three months for deployment and another one week for setup, while another user completed both in just one week. These differences in timeframes suggest that the two products have different implementation processes., Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service of both VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged products. They appreciate the helpfulness, responsiveness, and professionalism of the support teams, as well as their knowledge and willingness to address concerns.
The summary above is based on 35 interviews we conducted recently with VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The update capability of VxRail is crucial for us."
"The most valuable feature is that it is VMware-embedded. VxRail HCI is on VMware, and we can use VMware vCenter and vSphere. Our infrastructure consists of servers and VMware, and by using VxRail, our experience and familiarity have not changed because VxRail HCI is on VMware."
"The most valuable feature in the VxRail solution is the software that binds the management portal and its ease of use of managing the environment. The guys don't have to worry about getting multiple solutions specialist. You can have one person looking at and managing the whole environment."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation and integration points with other automation tools."
"VxRail is an agile solution with easily scalable, simplify operations with software driven automation and lower operational cost."
"The most valuable features are ease of management and ease of applying updates."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"The price could be better. The backup mechanism could also be better. Some of our clients prefer to work with backup software from a different vendor. They don't do a built-in backup solution. It would be better if they had guidelines on proper sizing and the whole life cycle from the requirement collection. If there aren't any proper guidelines, how do I go to the customer and evaluate their existing infrastructure? How can you do appropriate sizing to migrate to a hyper-converged environment? I think this is a requirement because most of our clients are migrating to a hyper-converged environment. In the next release, they can improve absolutely anything you can think of to improve the product in general—for example, the clusters and backup software."
"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."
"The agility of the support team to provide you with better solutions should be improved. VxRail also has to be improved in terms of simplicity. Adding a simple node seemed like quite a project."
"Technically speaking, the vCenter and the administration of the integration of the vCenter could be improved."
"It might offer better integration with other products."
"I would like it to tier to the cloud effectively, making sure that cold data can be pushed out to some sort of Bitbucket."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 117 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. VxRail report.
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