We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and HPE Alletra dHCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"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."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"Nimble is easy to use, but hard to install. Once it's installed, it's user-friendly. Reporting is another advantage because we get a lot of statistical forecasting. It helps us see into the future with that."
"The solution works well."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The technical support services are good."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"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."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product does not support file services."
"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."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in HCI while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and DataCore SANsymphony.
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