We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and VxRail 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."Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"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."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The solution is easy to use."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast."
"like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management."
"You don't need to think about compatibility of components."
"There is no in-depth config involved nor third-party needed, saving us time and money."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"The technical support is very helpful and answers questions whenever we have issues with the product."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"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 reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product does not support file services."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"They should improve just the support."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"One area of the product that could be improved is the support."
"The way that the VxRail is licensed could be improved."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"The initial setup between the different Dell departments is fragmented. The engineers who come to rack/stack and do the initial config should be trained on all the areas and work with the different Dell departments whilst they are onsite to give a smoother install and better experience for customer."
"When it comes to maintenance, it takes 16 hours to upgrade a 12 node VxRail plus. This could be improved in the system."
"I would like them to include an easier solution to host its own DNS. When they changed to version 6.5, they took out the easy features of letting the rail be its own DNS. You can still trick the system and make the VxRail Manager another one of the rail-required VMs become the DNS, but it's a lot of extra work. I'd like to see it put back into the UI."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
"Having a native replication would be an improvement."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rackspace OpenStack. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. VxRail report.
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