We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and HPE Alletra dHCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"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."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The solution works well."
"The latency is very low."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"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."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"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."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"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 is expensive."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in HCI while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and DataCore SANsymphony.
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