We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes 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.
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"It is easy to install."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"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 latency is very low."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"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."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"They require more media visibility."
"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 doesn't scale."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"The Dell VxRail solution is based on vSAN Ready Nodes, but the Dell VxRail is fully automated. It would be helpful if this automation feature could be added to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. For example, we need to install VMware ESXi, and manually expand the cluster."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
"The product does not support file services."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"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."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 14 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while HPE Alletra dHCI 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 Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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