We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware vSAN 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 product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"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."
"The latency is very low."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"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."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The deduplication and compression are excellent."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"vSAN has just one datastore. so customers do not need to think where to put their VMs, how to design the physical disk RAID, the LUN size, the LUN mapping, etc. when they use NetApp/EMC/HDS or other storage systems."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"We have found the solution to be very scalable."
"It is easy to use. It is easy to implement for us, and it is also easy to maintain for the customers. It is not necessary to buy some extra devices and talk with other vendors."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"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."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"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 product does not support file services."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
"This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
"I lose a node in a cluster vSAN, which is also used as a cluster HA. I lose not only the storage part, which is not necessarily serious (depending on the configuration of the vSAN cluster), but on the other hand, I lose also a node of Compute, which can make things complicated quickly."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
"The price can be reduced. Small businesses cannot afford this solution."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. VMware vSAN report.
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