We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex 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 access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"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."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution works well."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The technical support services are good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"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."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"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 performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are 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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an 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. See our Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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