We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."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."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The technical support services are good."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"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."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The solution is easy to use."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"It's an all-flash solution. NetApp guarantees 3-to-1 or more than 3-to-1. It has guaranteed performance, like 15K IOPS per node."
"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."
"The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously."
"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."
"It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well."
"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"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 product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"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."
"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."
"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 deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
"I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."
"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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