We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI 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 most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"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."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product does not support file services."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"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."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. 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 HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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