We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and HPE Hyper Converged 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.
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"It is extremely stable."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"It is easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"The Dell VxRail solution is based on vSAN Ready Nodes, but the Dell VxRail is fully automated. It would be helpful if this automation feature could be added to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. For example, we need to install VMware ESXi, and manually expand the cluster."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 14 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and 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 vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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