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We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and HPE Alletra dHCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good.""StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails.""Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier.""Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs.""I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have.""The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain.""It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls.""The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."

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"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time.""When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy.""What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage.""The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features.""The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it.""The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly.""The solution's hardware is great."

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"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective.""HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability.""HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good.""HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with.""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.""The latency is very low."

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Cons
"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.""I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V.""It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows""A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one.""The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive.""There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started.""It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery.""I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."

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"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product.""The solution's storage size could be improved.""In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers.""There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution.""We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date.""The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical.""Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."

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"They should improve just the support.""The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options.""The product is expensive.""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.""Lacking integration to the cloud.""Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick.""Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better.""It can be made cheaper."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great."
  • "We are happy with the price."
  • "The license is reusable. We can always rebuild it and apply the license. Then, boom, we get new servers, apply the license, and we're back up and running."
  • "The pricing is fine for the work that it does."
  • "When we did all the analysis for StarWind, it was approximately 20 percent less than any of the other solutions that we looked at."
  • "The scalability limitation for us is its licensing. At some point in the fairly near future, we will probably have to upgrade our license so we can store eight terabytes instead of four. We are currently at four terabytes, but we're starting to knock on the door of that capacity."
  • "The pricing is excellent. It will run on anything. You don't have to buy a $100,000 server, with hardware you don't need. You just pay for the license and you're good to go."
  • "The licensing is a bit weird. If you license the standard version of StarWind, it allows you four terabytes. Then, they have a pro version, but with the pro version, the only difference is it doubles the terabytes to eight."
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  • "The price point is very fair for a product in this category but can vary depending on the components selected within the family of products."
  • "We received a good price from Dell."
  • "The pricing is dependent on the technology and is in direct relation to the manufacturer and the components."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "The pricing for Dell EMC solutions is quite expensive and not really made for small or medium-sized businesses."
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  • "I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent."
  • "The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable."
  • "The cost of the licensing is reasonable."
  • "The price of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is expensive."
  • "HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is much cheaper than the competition and has value proposition. Customers can see an ROI in three months. There are no additional costs, and VMware licenses can be reutilized."
  • "With the features that HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides, I cannot say its pricing is more."
  • "The product is very affordable."
  • "I would rate the licensing model a three out of ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is cheap."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines… more »
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    Top Answer:You can maintain and update it with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings the… more »
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    Top Answer:The pricing is expensive. I would rate the licensing model a three out of ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten… more »
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    Also Known As
    StarWind SAN & NAS
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    Overview

    StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

    XC Series hyper-converged appliances integrate Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge servers with Nutanix software to offer one of the industry’s most versatile and scalable hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platforms. By supporting a choice of hypervisors, XC Series appliances can be deployed quickly for all virtualized workloads to reduce management complexity and total cost of ownership.

    HPE Alletra dHCI, a data storage solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), offers Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI), separating storage from compute resources for independent scaling and management. Utilizing HPE Nimble Storage technology, known for AI-driven optimization, it ensures high performance and management efficiency. With scalability and agility, users can effortlessly expand storage or processing power as data requirements evolve. Additionally, boasting rapid deployment in under 15 minutes and a claimed 99.9999% data availability, HPE Alletra dHCI promises robust and reliable storage solutions.

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    Baker Tilly BVI, CMS Internet, Board Harpeth Hall School
    Cardlytics, AEW Energie, Aubert, Zhongtong Information Service, Commune de Villepinte, Teikyo University Hospital
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    Manufacturing Company10%
    Construction Company8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Outsourcing Company10%
    Comms Service Provider10%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
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    Small Business64%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Small Business63%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise25%
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    Small Business83%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise9%
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    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.6, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that 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 XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series.

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