We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"A very flexible solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"We have seen ROI using this solution. It has simplified the work of the staff that we have which allows us to do more work with the same number of people, without having to incrementally grow the staff. The reliability of the product has been exceptional."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The VxRail is built on two specific platforms that have been in the industry for the last 15 to 20 years: the 1-U socket and the 2-U socket platforms from Dell. They're in their sixteenth generation of those platforms, I believe, so they're very stable."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"The updating of the features was one aspect of the solution that made us decide to use it."
"VxRail has high performance and has great efficiency. There is a single place for us to manage all of our virtual machines. The ability to right-size instead of overcommit VMs is a large benefit."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"It is a costly solution."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"VxRail could be easier to set up. It's tricky to configure the network properly and match the requirements."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"At present, VxRail is a hyperconverged state of the art product being installed in a legacy way. We need hyperconverged install teams."
"The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes."
"If they continue developing their product regarding VMware, it will be one of the best products in the HCI space. In terms of additional features, there is nothing missing because, for data protection, they also have the CDP option for VM. They can protect the VM at any point in time."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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