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Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs HPE SimpliVity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes
Ranking in HCI
25th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE SimpliVity
Ranking in HCI
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
155
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is 1.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE SimpliVity is 6.3%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
HCI Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE SimpliVity6.3%
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes1.3%
Other92.4%
HCI
 

Featured Reviews

Al Vasek - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Business Development Manager, Cloud and Managed Services at Presidio Networked Solutions
Ease of acquisition, simple deployment, and priced well
The support from Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is okay. It could be better, they have to work on their approach. The approach they have I call "pass the baton". Every manufacturer does this, such as Cisco, Dell, and Microsoft. You call in, receive a call handler, and give them your problem. The first person you talk to can never fix your problem. They just collect information. There's probably a 5 percent chance that they could fix your problem. Then they pass it off to the next person, there is a lot of passing. That's why I call it "pass the baton". The company I work for the maintenance services is at 98 percent, we receive over 50,000 incidents a month, for those customers who have support through Dell, Cisco, or someone else, 98 percent of our incidents or ticket requests get resolved by your first point of contact. We try to take out that frustration. Knowing that it's possible to fix that model. I don't think it saves them much money, because they're tying up too many resources where if they could route those incidents to the person that could fix them the first time, it would just save a lot of frustration on the customer's behalf. It would make everything a lot more efficient, and a better overall customer support image. It is a bad model that many vendors use.
Mohammed Lokman Hossen - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Has integrated solutions and rapid recovery made management smoother and more reliable
There is the latest update from HPE regarding HPE SimpliVity. For virtualization, HPE has to depend on other manufacturers, OEMs such as VMware or Hyper-V. Recently, HPE declared the VM essential virtualization solution. In the future, if HPE integrates HPE SimpliVity with VM essential, that will be a great combination. Functionality-wise, I am totally satisfied with HPE SimpliVity, but for improvement, if HPE integrates its own virtualization solution, this combination and integration will be beneficial because this integration can be configured with the cloud-based system. A VM can be uploaded to the cloud from this, which will be advantageous for backup to other sites.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"If you're going to buy Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes, it is good if you need something that's easy to deploy, and you're not going to be extending it into the public cloud, it's a great entry-level solution."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"This solution is ideal for commercial to enterprise customers looking for a single platform to manage all their different applications."
"HPE SimpliVity can improve our DR solution, and I would recommend this for the Hospitality industry because of the data recovery."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely, allow less experienced admins to perform storage tasks."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"Once installed, OmniStack performs beautifully, integrates painlessly, and can improve virtual datacenter performance magnificently."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature, and the usability is also good."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage, it is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
 

Cons

"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there."
"I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"Other customers want to see Windows Hyper-V Server 2016 support and also open-source VI."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"VMware-only support can actually restrict our business opportunity; it’s a business issue, not a technical issue."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"Backup from D2D only to D2D to tape."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a cheaper solution than Nutanix and HyperFlex."
"It seemed like it was expensive at first. Now that I have had it installed for a period of time, I think I got a great deal."
"Its licensing is yearly."
"In terms of the licenses, customers do not actually get any benefit."
"The price is one of the biggest problems our customers have."
"It is expensive for this market. Everyone says that it is a very good product, but the only complaint is about the price."
"Licensing costs are on a monthly basis. There are additional costs."
"Customers always complain that SimpliVity is a little bit higher in price point as compared to other solutions available in the market."
"All-in license, simple and fair."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business67
Midsize Enterprise49
Large Enterprise80
 

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What do you like most about HPE SimpliVity?
The solution's technical support is good.
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Also Known As

VxFlex Ready Nodes
SimpliVity, HPE HCI
 

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Sample Customers

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Red Bull Racing, Mandarin Oriental, Brigham Young University, UCLA, Merlin Entertainments, Sasa Cosmetics, Travelport, St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Princess House
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