We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes 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."The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"It is easy to install."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"Nimble is easy to use, but hard to install. Once it's installed, it's user-friendly. Reporting is another advantage because we get a lot of statistical forecasting. It helps us see into the future with that."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"Very good in-line compression."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"The latency is very low."
"The solution works well."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"The Dell VxRail solution is based on vSAN Ready Nodes, but the Dell VxRail is fully automated. It would be helpful if this automation feature could be added to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. For example, we need to install VMware ESXi, and manually expand the cluster."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The product is expensive."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 14 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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