We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both of these HPE solutions are part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise brand of excellent data management products. Users say HPE SimpliVity is the more comprehensive product. It is a very user-friendly, simple product to use, implement, and manage. The storage virtualization layers and super fast backups make it extremely valuable. Some users say HPE Nimble Storage dHCI can be a bit buggy and should provide better file-level restoration and DVX system options.
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"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."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
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"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The solution works well."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"It is a stable solution."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"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 performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"They should improve just the support."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"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."
"The product does not support file services."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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