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."It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"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."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"The solution works well."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"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 solution has many good features."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product is expensive."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"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."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th 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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