2019-03-12T08:05:00Z

What Is The Biggest Difference Between SimpliVity and VxRail?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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2019-03-27T12:35:43Z
Mar 27, 2019

Last year we looked at VxRail, SimpliVity and several other HCI solutions. We ruled out VxRail very early in the evaluation because it required 7 servers to achieve the stretched cluster architecture we wanted while SimpliVity only required 2 servers. Consequently, the VxRail cost was approximately 2.5 times the SimpliVity cost. We ended up deploying SimpliVity and we've been extremely happy with it. Full backups and restores complete in under a minute and we're achieving a data reduction ratio of > 250:1 (2.5PB reduced to 8.6TB).

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User
2019-03-28T03:47:48Z
Mar 28, 2019

They are both HCI and serve the same purpose as HCI. The biggest difference for me is:
1. Simplivity using a special hardware put into HPE Proliant servers to make it HCI, meanwhile VxRail using vSAN as their base on their PowerEdge servers.
2. I haven't heard of any update from Simplivity for years. Meanwhile for VxRail, they always launch new version every 3 to 6 months. There are continuous improvement on my point of view for VxRail.
3. both are great. Now, every business is unique and they have unique application and data stored inside their storage. So, if you look for the best your your organization, I would suggest to do POC before make a purchase decision.

Cheers

MB
User
2019-03-27T22:57:32Z
Mar 27, 2019

VXrail is a HW and SW based solution EMC/Dell/VMware will try to sell you. Simplivity can be either from HPE.

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