We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"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."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"The documentation could be better."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"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."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product is expensive."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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