We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and HPE ConvergedSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ROI is great on this product."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"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"
"The solution's hardware is great."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"The solution's technical support was good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The user interface, reporting, and management are good, and we are quite happy with the performance."
"The flexibility is the most advantageous aspect of the solution. Our system has a very big environment. Due to this, the replication and backup operation is not an easy task. We prefer HPE SimpliVity modules in our environment, even when we have some different cases in operations."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to restore lost machines. Essentially its high availability capabilities are extremely valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of HPE ConvergedSystem are scalability and resilience."
"We use the solution for DDI."
"This is a scalable solution. Our customers begin with an initial configuration and later add more servers, memory and other options to meet the demands of increased processing."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The solution has a complicated front-end."
"Features that should be addressed concern the HPE functionality and the interaction with VMware."
"The interface is not fully integrated with the ESXi, which is something that could be improved."
"It could be enhanced by improving the built-in backup solution."
"This is an expensive solution."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its management. I would like the tool to add cloud management features so that the system can be accessed anywhere from the cloud."
"I would like to see monitoring solutions included, as well as brand support."
"The solution needs to add NFS features."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while HPE ConvergedSystem is ranked 3rd in Converged Infrastructure with 21 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE ConvergedSystem is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ConvergedSystem writes "With good integration and expansion capabilities, the tool also offers good technical support". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas HPE ConvergedSystem is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, Dell VxBlock System and FlexPod XCS.
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