We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both of these HPE solutions are part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise brand of excellent data management products. Users say HPE SimpliVity is the more comprehensive product. It is a very user-friendly, simple product to use, implement, and manage. The storage virtualization layers and super fast backups make it extremely valuable. Some users say HPE Nimble Storage dHCI can be a bit buggy and should provide better file-level restoration and DVX system options.
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The technical support services are good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Very good in-line compression."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage. It is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"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."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"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'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."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"I have not seen ROI."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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 SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Rubrik. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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