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."StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical 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."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The technical support services are good."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Very good in-line compression."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"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."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The product is expensive."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"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 documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Currently, when we need to do capacity planning, we have to rely on Sangfor's support team for assistance. However, if there were dedicated tools available, we could handle it ourselves and increase efficiency."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"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."
"It can have more compatibility and new features. I would also like to see better performance. Some of the other HCI solutions already provide the SSD and flash storage and much higher Intel processors. Sangfor HCI can improve on that."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
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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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