We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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."It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"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."
"It is extremely stable."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"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'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."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"The sales process is easy."
"I do like that I can manage StarWind with a console running on my local desktop."
"Being able to upgrade machines and software during business operations just by switching nodes has been a huge improvement. We"
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"In our experience with StarWind, the support has been by far the most valuable feature."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"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."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"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."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product does not support file services."
"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."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"Possible new features could be CSV-level snapshot capability, Veeam integration, and maybe a more straightforward setup. Granted, you don't have to worry about setups with the HCA, but if you want to implement StarWind vSAN in a lab to test it is a tedious setup process."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"I think that the pre-installation questionnaire was a little confusing and ambiguous."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"The monitoring and report software is a bit hit and miss."
"The overall product documentation and knowledgebase articles could use some rewriting and clarification."
"We were slightly disappointed with the hardware footprint. We were led to believe, and all the pre-sales tech information requirements pointed to the fact, that it was coming on Dell hardware. Then it came on bulk servers."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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