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."Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"It's quite easy to install."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"It is extremely stable."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"It is a stable solution."
"Storage is always available."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"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 latency is very low."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"The documentation could be better."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The alert system could have more features."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"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 24 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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