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."It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"The support team responds quickly."
"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 most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The technical support services are good."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"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."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
"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."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th 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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