We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both of these HPE solutions are part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise brand of excellent data management products. Users say HPE SimpliVity is the more comprehensive product. It is a very user-friendly, simple product to use, implement, and manage. The storage virtualization layers and super fast backups make it extremely valuable. Some users say HPE Nimble Storage dHCI can be a bit buggy and should provide better file-level restoration and DVX system options.
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Very good in-line compression."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"It is easy to set up."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The initial setup is simple."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"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."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The product is expensive."
"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."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"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 stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The product is expensive."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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