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."StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"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."
"Very good in-line compression."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The technical support services are 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."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The most valuable features are its performance, simplicity, and synchronicity with vSphere."
"It easily integrates with all types of storage."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"While we haven't made major changes to our disaster recovery and business continuity processes yet, moving towards stretch vSAN across sites will simplify and expedite our DR processes in the future."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"We can scale it very easily for a test environment. We were able to segment our DMZ so it wasn't connected to anything, which we really liked."
"The high availability is very good."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"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."
"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 product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"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."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"External storage would be a good thing to have in the next release, something other than iSCZI, something a little more, not HA, a little more production-oriented, than iSCZI."
"The customer service is good but there is a cost for it. It does not come free."
"More focus has to be put on deduplication and compression with a hybrid architecture."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"I'd like to see better integration with the Update Manager, with respect to firmware updates for hardware."
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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