We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE Alletra dHCI 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 like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The product provides zero downtime."
"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 solution works well."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The technical support services are good."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
"The product does not support file services."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"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."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StorPool, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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