We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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 has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"It is extremely stable."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"This is a great product."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product does not support file services."
"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."
"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'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"It should have object storage. It already has network virtualization and micro-segmentation, but it is missing object storage. It does not have object storage. vSAN also does not have object storage, but Nutanix has object storage, and it is natively integrated into its HCI. So, if you pay for the object storage license, you have that module pre-built."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"The cost must be improved."
"The migration process could be easier."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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