We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"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 feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"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 features are replication and backup."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance 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 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. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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