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."StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Very good in-line compression."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"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."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"This is a great product."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"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."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The product is expensive."
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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