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 fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The technical support services are good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The solution works well."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"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."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"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."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"It can be made cheaper."
"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 product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, 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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