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."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 quite easy to install."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"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."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"Good security with this solution."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Very good in-line compression."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 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, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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