We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3 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 biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"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 product provides zero downtime."
"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."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"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 solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"The product does not support file services."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The product is expensive."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"The product could use a better control center."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 21st in HCI with 7 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.6. 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 Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE SimpliVity. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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