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."HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The latency is very low."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"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"
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."
"They should improve just the support."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"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."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 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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