We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"Very good in-line compression."
"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."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The product is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product does not support file services."
"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."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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