We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and HPE Alletra dHCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"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."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The latency is very low."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The technical support services are good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"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."
"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 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."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
"It can be made cheaper."
"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."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
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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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