We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and HPE Alletra dHCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"It's quite easy to install."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The latency is very low."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"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."
"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."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex.
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