We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both of these HPE solutions are part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise brand of excellent data management products. Users say HPE SimpliVity is the more comprehensive product. It is a very user-friendly, simple product to use, implement, and manage. The storage virtualization layers and super fast backups make it extremely valuable. Some users say HPE Nimble Storage dHCI can be a bit buggy and should provide better file-level restoration and DVX system options.
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"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."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Very good in-line compression."
"The technical support services are good."
"The latency is very low."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The setup is very easy."
"The solution is scalable."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"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."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"There may be issues around scaling."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Rubrik. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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