We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI 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.
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"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."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"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."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The support is highly responsive."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The solution is scalable."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"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."
"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."
"Very good in-line compression."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The latency is very low."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"The installation is complex."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product is expensive."
"They should improve just the support."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"It can be made cheaper."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VxRail. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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