We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware vSAN 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."The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"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."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"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."
"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 technical support services are good."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is you do not have to use additional hardware for storage. The operation of VMware vSAN does not take a lot of effort. If you have VMware technology on your site, then it's easy for the operational support of the system."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"This is a great product."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"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 only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"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 product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"I would like to be able to limit IOPS."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"The updating process could be easier."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"Currently, one of the available features is shareable VMBKs. You can create the VMBK disc and you can make them shareable between the ends. But as soon as you start using this feature, you lose the ability to create snapshots."
"Only the stretched cluster requires a minor improvement."
"Hardware load balancing is available on the enterprise version of the solution, however, it's extremely expensive and therefore out of our budget."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. VMware vSAN report.
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