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."The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It is extremely stable."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"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."
"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"The program is stable."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"The solution is scalable."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"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'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."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"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."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"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."
"The product does not support file services."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"They should improve just the support."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The product is expensive."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"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."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th 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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