We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"It is extremely stable."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"It can be made cheaper."
"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."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"They should improve just the support."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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