We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged 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 solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"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."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"Very good in-line compression."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The solution works well."
"The solution has many good features."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"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."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"They should improve just the support."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The product does not support file services."
"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 is not very stable."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. 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 HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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