We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware vSAN 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 product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"Very good in-line compression."
"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."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"The technical support services are good."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"IOPS is comparatively best to run VDI solution."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"The solution is easy to use."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"It completely removes the need for a storage network and for a storage administrator and all of that infrastructure and the costs that are involved with them."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"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."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"It can be made cheaper."
"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."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product is expensive."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"Hardware load balancing is available on the enterprise version of the solution, however, it's extremely expensive and therefore out of our budget."
"This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. VMware vSAN report.
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