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."Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."
"It is easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"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."
"The latency is very low."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"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."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"They should improve just the support."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
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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