We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance 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 StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"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."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"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."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"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."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that 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 XC Appliance is most compared with , whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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