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 failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"The program is stable."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"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."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Very good in-line compression."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"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."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"The installation is complex."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"They should improve just the support."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". 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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