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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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Pros
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage.""When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three.""StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware.""It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters.""The performance of the solution is accurate and concise.""It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure.""The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way.""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."

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"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly.""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.""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.""What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage.""The solution's hardware is great."

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"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable.""The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads.""Very good in-line compression.""HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with.""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.""Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective.""I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information.""The product provides zero downtime."

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Cons
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions.""There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA.""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.""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.""For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings.""I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation.""When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind.""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."

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"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers.""There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution.""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.""Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster.""The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical.""The solution's storage size could be improved."

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"They should improve just the support.""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.""Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick.""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.""I'm not sure if there are features lacking.""The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds.""The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better.""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."

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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 »
    Top Answer:The cost of this is less than you expect. Since they're selling a software stack, you do need to consider your own… more »
    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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    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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    Sample Customers
    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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    Top Industries
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    Manufacturing Company10%
    Construction Company8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Computer Software Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Outsourcing Company10%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Training & Coaching Company10%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business64%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    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%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    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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