We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind Virtual SAN 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.
"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."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"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."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"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."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"The product is expensive."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"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."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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