"It's quite easy to manage."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"The solution is stable and reliable. This is one of the main reasons why we purchased this solution."
"The implementation was quick, we used a checklist and it took approximately one hour."
"The major advantage is the blueprint. You do not need to separately manage the sand or network part because it all gets virtualized."
"You don't need to think about compatibility of components."
"The initial setup is simple."
"There are so many features, but if I have to choose, I would go for scale-out upgrades and performance. Scale-out upgrades are very valuable. Typically, when customers engage in virtualization, they're committing themselves to run many virtual machines on a fewer number of hosts. They'll have five or six hosts, and they will run all their virtualization on vSphere. They could be having anywhere from 50 to 100 or even more virtual machines. Once all these go into production, getting downtime or getting planned maintenance windows is extremely difficult. It is something that typically businesses will frown upon. With VxRail, you can just go ahead and add a node without disrupting the existing environment, which works very well. That's why scale-out upgrades are a key feature. Its performance is also valuable. It delivers a very high number of IOPS for a hybrid configuration or an all-flash configuration. The processors that are available in the Xeon family are very powerful. They are multi-core with typically 2 gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz, or higher frequency, so the performance is very much appreciated."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"VxRail is a closed system with an out-of-the -box solution approach, it has basic 3 layers, Hardware, Network, Storage, Software, (Virtualizing) Applications. Release notes and improvement tips, patches from the back office, the business units, should be frequent and up to the patches which are coming from different vendors as far as the operating system application and also the technology itself is concerned."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"Its price needs to be improved. It is very expensive. NSX should be licensed together. It will make the network virtualization layer more usable. It would be better if they come together in a bundle, not separately."
"The licensing needs to be improved upon."
"The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes."
"If we could have some out of the box ideas in integration, I think that would be a great feature."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 14th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 4 reviews while VxRail is ranked 3rd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 84 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 9.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes "High performance that gives an advantage over traditional virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Good automation makes this solution practical". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. VxRail report.
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