We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Pivot3 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 StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The product is expensive."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"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."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Pivot3 report.
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