We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI 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 went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) offers a significant breadth of features."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"The solution is scalable."
"The support team responds quickly."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"The latency is very low."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution works well."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"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."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"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."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"The product does not support file services."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Is very resilient and protects our data, but the solution is complex". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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