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."The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"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 ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Good security with this solution."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"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)."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"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."
"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 does not support file services."
"The product is expensive."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
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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