We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE Alletra dHCI 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."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."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"It is a very stable solution."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"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 latency is very low."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"The alert system could have more features."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"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."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be 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."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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