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."It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The latency is very low."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The technical support services are good."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"vSAN that has been most effective in streamlining storage operations. For data recovery alerts, it uses tools like snapshots and vMotion."
"it's easy to scale, it's easy to predict IOP needs, and you can design for low latency using all-flash... Also, for setting up new clusters for VDI quickly, it's nice. You don't have to wait on an order for a storage vendor to ship you a system and help you configure it, you do it all yourself. And the sizing guides are pretty straightforward."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"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."
"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."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The product does not support file services."
"They should improve just the support."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"It could be cheaper."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
"The only negative point relates to the licensing. If you want multiple, different servers, it costs money, but you have all the capacity for vSAN. You do not reach the data, but the processor arrays and the current architecture."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
"Better options would be clustered nodes, or even cloud configuration. There is room for improvement in cloud configuration, we typically do web browsing for management."
"The updating process could be easier."
"Improvements can be made with respect to scalability."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
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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