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."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"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 easy to use."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"Very good in-line compression."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"It is scalable, overall. If you need to add storage, it makes it easy to scale by adding additional hard drives into the existing servers or you can add storage by just adding more servers."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"It completely removes the need for a storage network and for a storage administrator and all of that infrastructure and the costs that are involved with them."
"I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability."
"We are finding that vSAN is a lot more scalable and adaptable, because we can go in with hybrid arrays for our lower-end storage needs or with all-flash versions of vSAN for places where we need more performance, and it's coming in at a lower cost point than an actual traditional array."
"It's very scalable. I like that. Adding a node is easy. Adding a disk group is easy."
"The vSAN features we've found most helpful are live application migrations and storage policies. It has storage, policies, application, and DRS policies. Automation is there."
"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 logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"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."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"They should improve just the support."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"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 initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"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."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"There is a lot that VMware could improve from a marketing perspective. The cloud is still new for many people, so extending storage should be effortless. It shouldn't be so complicated to extend the storage so workloads can access it no matter where they go."
"The server files are larger than before."
"I'd like to see better integration with the Update Manager, with respect to firmware updates for hardware."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"I would like to see a little bit more documentation on the initial setup, and a little bit more explanation on the expandability: How to extend out your vSAN much more simply through the console because, a lot of the time, you have to do it through the command line."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"Its integration with a hybrid cloud can be improved. Its scalability can also be improved so that it can be integrated with more than 32 nodes. The maximum number of nodes is okay, but our use cases could probably do with more nodes, probably up to 64. In terms of new features, it should probably have the basic support for high-speed networking spaces."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 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, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, 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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