We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"Nimble is easy to use, but hard to install. Once it's installed, it's user-friendly. Reporting is another advantage because we get a lot of statistical forecasting. It helps us see into the future with that."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"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 most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"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."
"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 solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product is expensive."
"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."
"This is a great product."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorPool. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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