We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE Alletra dHCI 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."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Very good in-line compression."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"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."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product does not support file services."
"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."
"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."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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