We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3 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."Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"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."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The solution is scalable."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"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 performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"The product does not support file services."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product could use a better control center."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8. 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 Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE SimpliVity. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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