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)."A company can scale it easily."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"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."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"I like the managed updates. They are really nice in VxRail. Everything comes packaged and the updates are much easier than with other solutions that I've had to work with."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"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."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"Enterprise is a complete solution that includes performance, backups and disaster recovery."
"I like that there is a dependency on the storage controller."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"It is a costly solution."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"User interface could be improved."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The UI could be a little more informative."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"A more containerized approach in regards to the interface would be better."
"The support protocols have changed after Broadcom acquired VMware."
"It might offer better integration with other products."
"The most important thing that I want to be included in this solution is the VMware license. Its deployment time can be quicker so that instead of 40 minutes, it takes 10 minutes."
"It should not be deployed on one hypervisor. There should be multiple hypervisors supported like Hyper-V or KVM."
"What I did not like so much was the amount of VMware that you have to put in your system related to the VxRail."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 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 VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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