We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware vSAN 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 VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"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"
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The latency is very low."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"vSAN is easy for deploying and maintenance, so some customers can do service themselves."
"Technical support is good."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"The high availability is very good."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"It can be made cheaper."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"They should improve just the support."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"When you upgrade the vSAN, there are some issues like lost data and problems with the log. The log disappears. When you upgrade the solution, you must have several logs, so if you have some problems, you can check the log server to find them."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"I would like a better Hardware Certification List (HCL). The HCL should a little easier to deal with."
"I would like to see it be more hardware-agnostic. Other than that, the only other complication is - and it has gotten better with the newer versions - that lately, once you're running an all-flash, if you need to grow or scale down your infrastructure, it's a long process. You need to evacuate all data and make sure you have enough space on the host, then add more hosts or take out hosts. That process is a little bit complex. You cannot scale as needed or shrink as needed."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. VMware vSAN report.
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