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."The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"The latency is very low."
"The technical support services are good."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"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."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"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."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"It was not expensive at all."
"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."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"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."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The product does not support file services."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"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."
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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 8.0, 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), Dell PowerFlex and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, 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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