We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series 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."The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"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."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The technical support services are good."
"The latency is very low."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"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."
"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."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"It can be made cheaper."
"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."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and VMware vSAN, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series report.
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