We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"It's quite easy to install."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage. It is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"Once you select the size of SimpliVity, it could be risky for you to downsize it because you may need maybe to reimplement some things."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that 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 XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik.
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