We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and HPE ConvergedSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"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."
"We use the solution for DDI."
"The storage, BladeSystems, Virtual Connect, and simplicity with hyper-converged solutions are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The user interface, reporting, and management are good, and we are quite happy with the performance."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to restore lost machines. Essentially its high availability capabilities are extremely valuable to us."
"Consolidation and duplications features."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"This is a scalable solution. Our customers begin with an initial configuration and later add more servers, memory and other options to meet the demands of increased processing."
"The tool's most valuable features are stability and scalability."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"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."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its price."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"The interface is not fully integrated with the ESXi, which is something that could be improved."
"The tool has shortcomings in its performance monitoring part."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would like to see monitoring solutions included, as well as brand support."
"The solution has a complicated front-end."
"I would like to see better manageability and integration with third-party tools."
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Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while HPE ConvergedSystem is ranked 3rd in Converged Infrastructure with 21 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.6, while HPE ConvergedSystem is rated 8.4. 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 ConvergedSystem writes "With good integration and expansion capabilities, the tool also offers good technical support". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas HPE ConvergedSystem is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, FlexPod XCS, Dell VxBlock System and HPE SimpliVity.
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