We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The latency is very low."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Very good in-line compression."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The technical support services are good."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"It is flexible like a hyper-convergence system. You can add nodes, and you can scale to have better performance and stability. I also like the backup feature, the recovery system, and the web interface GUI to handle everything."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"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."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product is expensive."
"The product does not support file services."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"The migration process could be easier."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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