We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"It is a stable solution."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"Its performance can be faster."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". 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 VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, HPE Alletra dHCI, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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