We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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 has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"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."
"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"
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"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."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The documentation could be better."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"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 does not support file services."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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