We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"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."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"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."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"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 most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"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."
"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."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. 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 Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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