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."StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"It is extremely stable."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"The latency is very low."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"The solution works well."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product's active controller feature needs 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."
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 Scale Computing HC3, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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