We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage 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."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 vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my virtual SAN configuration."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The technical support services are good."
"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."
"The latency is very low."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The implementation was quick, we used a checklist and it took approximately one hour."
"We have seen ROI using this solution. It has simplified the work of the staff that we have which allows us to do more work with the same number of people, without having to incrementally grow the staff. The reliability of the product has been exceptional."
"It's somewhat hard to speak about specific features, but I like VxRail's simplicity and ease of use. It's a decent solution for customers with a small footprint. If you're operating a big data center, it's not easy to position VxRail or HCI solutions, but when you have a small customer managing many different components, it's easier to work only with one solution."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"VxRail can be used for application modernization."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"VxRail has improved our organization by providing our admin team with an easy-to-use interface."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"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 would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product is expensive."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"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."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"We'd like to see more automation capabilities in the future."
"I would like to see Dell take a crack at simplifying the process of moving from a node to a cluster and assembling everything into the appliance. It would be great if Dell could provide a pathway where a customer could actually install it without the certifications. Of course, I can't say how you would dumb down something so complex."
"They're getting better with their one-click upgrade. The success factor is now between 85% to 87% with the latest release. They should just continuously improve on that one-click factor and make it more seamless."
"The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes."
"It might offer better integration with other products."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
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HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 15 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 38 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is rated 7.8, while VxRail is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI writes "A scalable product that provides zero downtime and enables organizations to manage their infrastructure from a single console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "It's built on platforms that have been in the industry for more than 15 years, so it's very stable". HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Hyper Converged and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes. See our HPE Nimble Storage dHCI vs. VxRail report.
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