We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex 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.
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"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."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The solution has many good features."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The documentation could be better."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"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."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"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."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in HCI while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while HPE Hyper Converged 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 Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, HPE Alletra dHCI, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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