2019-03-12T08:05:00Z

What Is The Biggest Difference Between SimpliVity and VxRail?

One of the most popular comparisons on IT Central Station is SimpliVity vs VxRail.

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What is the biggest difference between SimpliVity and VxRail? Which of these two solutions would you recommend to a colleague evaluating hyper-converged solutions and why?

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DC
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
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2019-03-27T12:35:43Z
Mar 27, 2019

Last year we looked at VxRail, SimpliVity and several other HCI solutions. We ruled out VxRail very early in the evaluation because it required 7 servers to achieve the stretched cluster architecture we wanted while SimpliVity only required 2 servers. Consequently, the VxRail cost was approximately 2.5 times the SimpliVity cost. We ended up deploying SimpliVity and we've been extremely happy with it. Full backups and restores complete in under a minute and we're achieving a data reduction ratio of > 250:1 (2.5PB reduced to 8.6TB).

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Product Manager with 11-50 employees
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2019-03-28T03:47:48Z
Mar 28, 2019

They are both HCI and serve the same purpose as HCI. The biggest difference for me is:
1. Simplivity using a special hardware put into HPE Proliant servers to make it HCI, meanwhile VxRail using vSAN as their base on their PowerEdge servers.
2. I haven't heard of any update from Simplivity for years. Meanwhile for VxRail, they always launch new version every 3 to 6 months. There are continuous improvement on my point of view for VxRail.
3. both are great. Now, every business is unique and they have unique application and data stored inside their storage. So, if you look for the best your your organization, I would suggest to do POC before make a purchase decision.

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MB
Account Executive at NetApp
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2019-03-27T22:57:32Z
Mar 27, 2019

VXrail is a HW and SW based solution EMC/Dell/VMware will try to sell you. Simplivity can be either from HPE.

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Content Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Mar 2, 2022
How does HPE Simplivity compare with VMware vSAN? Which would you recommend?
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Nov 1, 2021
HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that is primarily geared to mid-sized companies. We researched VMware vSAN but found HPE was a better option for us. HPE SimpliVity has valuable features, but the most important thing for us is that it provides a complete solution. We could set it up very quickly, and the interface is intuitive. It has a central dashboard, and you can find everything from there. HPE SimpliVity made our virtualization stack so simple. You can combine it with an accelerator card, so the number of writes is reduced significantly. Cloning or backup VMs is a breeze because the system only changes the data you need to restore or clone. Additionally, it works well with Veeam, which we already have. Cost-wise, it is very reasonably priced. However, if you want to add more memory, you’ll need to pay additional licensing costs. We found the upgrades to be a bit complex. We tried VMware vSAN too. One of its advantages is the easy setup. VMware vSAN supports all-flash memory and integrates with all VMware products, which helps run operations smoothly. The best feature might be its scalability. VMware vSAN scales up and scales out very easily. It is easy to manage, too. There are downsides to VMware vSAN, though. For instance, support is very slow. It doesn’t work well with high IOP either. Finally, you cannot isolate virtual machines for deduplication and compression. So, if you are looking for high performance, we found VMware vSAN to be too expensive for the value it provides. Conclusions VMware provides good storage as a service for companies that already work with other VMware products or are looking for a reliable SAN. But their poor support and lack of virtual machine-level features made us decide on HPE SimpliVity for our hyper-convergence needs.
Mar 2, 2022
The answer depends on what is it that you are looking for in your solution... Both Simplivity & vSAB are software-defined storage technology-wise. Now the second important thing is both create a blob/object storage out of a set of disks.  Ideally, both these solutions can't compare to real-world storage requirements where the need is block storage at the lowest latency. Most of the time both technologies are used for generalized VM workloads and not for specialized workloads. vSAN from VMware leverages Erasure code for maintaining the availability of data on the soft SAN. This architecture is referred to as RAIN - a minimum of 3 nodes are recommended in such architecture to run the storage show effectively. Simplivity, on the other hand, leverages a combination of RAID + RAIN wherein the storage availability is unimpacted even if you start with 2 Nodes.  IOPS and latency are the issues with both solutions. Application performance is dependent on disk latency & throughput too. So, depending on the scenario, you need to tailor your solution. What my point is: it generally depends on workload type, data volume and performance of the VM platform that you are planning for. Both the technologies are great, People use vCloud Suite more as compared to Simplivity globally, that too is a proven fact. Then it depends on the size of a company and the workloads you wanna run... tools and processes around which your operation is defined and built.
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Content Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Oct 26, 2021
Which would you prefer and why?
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DG
Tech blogger
Oct 26, 2021
VxRail provides stable solutions for technical problems while at the same time not being too expensive for a company to invest in. Even if you are working with a limited budget, this platform offers freedom of choice and a number of different options. In contrast, Cisco HyperFlex HX does run on the more expensive side and cannot offer the same level of cost-effective solution. VxRail is able to provide both an ability to upgrade the system with an ever-growing library of resources as well as to provide powerful processors. This is something that I greatly appreciate. Being able to simply add upgrades to the system without necessarily having to worry about the system being bogged down is invaluable. The ability that it provides to apply updates to the system with ease is something worthy of note. If you add this to the fact that VxRail runs on multiple cores at 2 gigahertz or higher, then that means that in terms of ability, the VxRail is difficult to match. In terms of usability, it is hard to argue that VxRail delivers. It is pretty simple and easy to both set up and manage. Once the system is set up, all of the management tools are centrally located to assist in providing ease of use. The Cisco Hyperflex HX Series is both stable as well as reasonably easy to set up. Cisco has a step-by-step program guide that leads you through the process. Once it is set up, it is not prone to glitching or freezing. However, the pricing model that Cisco applies to this product requires users to pay a yearly subscription. This can end up being rather expensive in the long run. Conclusion Both systems offer stable solutions. Ultimately, VxRail is more cost-effective.
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