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."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."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"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."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"Very good in-line compression."
"The technical support services are good."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"Its interface could be better."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"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."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"The product is expensive."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"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."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 23 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 and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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