We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged 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."I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"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 latency is very low."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It is a scalable solution."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product does not support file services."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"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."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"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 solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. 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 HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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