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."User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"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 most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"The solution has many good features."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"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 solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."
"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 solution doesn't scale."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"This solution is very costly."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
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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