We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The latency is very low."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Very good in-line compression."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path."
"The NetApp Deployment Engine that comes with it makes the actual deployment and usage very easy. That's our primary focus and it's hyper-converged. That's something that we want to use as well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"This is a strong product and it works very well, and the processes around it continue to grow and mature."
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"The ease of deployment is a positive feature that allows us to scale easily."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"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."
"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."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"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 deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
"The networking needs improvement."
"There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug."
"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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