We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and VxRail 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."StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"There is a single vendor with the hardware, software, and maintenance. Thus, there is a single vendor with whom we can contact."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"VxRail is very cost-effective and affordable in the long term. It is more recommended when it comes to financial life, but it may depend upon the license. VxRail comes with VMware licensing, which may not be that cost-effective as compared to others. With VMware, it's an auto check competition. VMware is an expensive solution, especially for Nutanix. Nutanix have their own hypervisor called Acronis, which is very cost-effective against the VMware. Nutanix is cheaper for the hardware but not for the software. If you ask the Nutanix partners to deploy Nutanix over Cisco servers or Dell EMC servers, the cost will be higher. Nutanix wants to compete financially. Therefore, they propose their software over the Supermicro server, which is a very cheap Chinese server. In fact, I don't like their terms of service. HyperFlex has the highest price, and it is very expensive. I don't know why. It may be because this is a UCS system, which comes from Cisco and is already expensive. When it comes to HyperFlex, they need the labor to deploy Hyper-V, Citrix, or any other hypervisor."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"I would recommend VxRail, it works for most of the use cases."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"This product has given us clear visibility into what we need technology-wise to grow."
"It gives us tons of flexibility. We can create new machines, then destroy them if they don't work out. We test a lot of use cases that may or may not play out. We can build all types of scenarios into virtual machines that we may or may not use. If we don't use them, we just turn them off, no using up resources."
"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."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"The SCL database sends out a warning and you have to download the adjacent file from the Dell website. You have to upload it and retest it. We cannot always connect our systems to the internet which means we sometimes miss these important updates."
"The product could support and have more compliance with other vendors."
"Next release, we would like to see online applications."
"There is a limitation on the number of nodes."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
"At present, VxRail is a hyperconverged state of the art product being installed in a legacy way. We need hyperconverged install teams."
"The solution is vendor-locked and Dell is the only supplier of VxRail."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rackspace OpenStack. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. VxRail report.
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