We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and HPE Hyper Converged 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."StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"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."
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"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."
"The power switch on the hardware is located in a poor location where it can accidentally be pushed. In an update, they should solve this issue so people do not push it accidentally to have their service go down. A possible solution is the switch should be inside."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"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 deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in HCI with 14 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while HPE Hyper Converged 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 Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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 Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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