We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Very good in-line compression."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"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 latency is very low."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI's best features are the ability to scale to a bigger size and the roadmap, whereby if they need to replicate their production to disaster recovery, they can do so on the same platform."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten... Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"They require more media visibility."
"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 does not support file services."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product is expensive."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"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."
"Currently, when we need to do capacity planning, we have to rely on Sangfor's support team for assistance. However, if there were dedicated tools available, we could handle it ourselves and increase efficiency."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"Lacks network support."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"The cost must be improved."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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