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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"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 backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"The main thing is its performance. In terms of performance, it is a lot better than VMware. Obviously, technology is changing a lot all the time. We were on just VMware with a separate attached array. The performance was kind of a step backward from just running separate servers. Now, the performance is much better, and we can take snapshots and backups of really big servers in just a matter of seconds. We can even restore them in a matter of seconds."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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