We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged 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 vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"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."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The technical support services are good."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"They should improve just the support."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"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 product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"It can be made cheaper."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. 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 HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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