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."Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"The support team responds quickly."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"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."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The technical support services are good."
"The solution works well."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"Very good in-line compression."
"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 solution is easy to use."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"The initial deployment was complicated and required a lot of data nodes, IPs, internal vLANs, data vLANs, and many other things."
"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 need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"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."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 22 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th 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 "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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