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."We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The technical support services are good."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"It can be made cheaper."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"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."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"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"
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 23 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, 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 VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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