We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and VxRail 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."The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"VxRail is an agile solution with easily scalable, simplify operations with software driven automation and lower operational cost."
"It's somewhat hard to speak about specific features, but I like VxRail's simplicity and ease of use. It's a decent solution for customers with a small footprint. If you're operating a big data center, it's not easy to position VxRail or HCI solutions, but when you have a small customer managing many different components, it's easier to work only with one solution."
"Depending on your architecture type, it's simple to manage and implement VxRail compared to other solutions. That's why most of our customers use it."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"The ease of deployment and management of the solution are the most valuable aspects of the product."
"VxRail can manage the whole cluster at the same time, so it's easy to expand. VxRail has more features vSAN ReadyNodes that make it easier to implement from scratch."
"The initial setup is simple."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"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."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"This solution is very costly."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"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."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"We used an integrator team for the implementation of the solution. The one person who takes care of the maintenance of VxRail, such as upgrading the software. The upgrading takes too long. We have many nodes which takes a long time, they need to improve the speed of the upgrades"
"Some of the features of the hyperconverged infrastructure could be integrated with external storage. Right now, for example, if I have surveillance going, I need to purchase very cheap storage. So, an integration between the hyperconverged infrastructure and external storage would be good."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
"I would like to see more solutions for satellite capabilities where we can put it into smaller locations and still have the redundancy that we have with a larger cluster."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"It could be improved by having more information on the integration portion of ACI."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 12th in HCI with 12 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 38 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.4, while VxRail is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "It's built on platforms that have been in the industry for more than 15 years, so it's very stable". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. VxRail report.
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