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"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"They offer top-tier support."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Very good in-line compression."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"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."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."
"It has automated a lot of workloads. It has automated us from ticketing a large number to a very small number."
"HCI has helped with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds for the last year. It's faster and more reliable with minimal downtime, as it doesn't require any maintenance."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"Stability is one of the things we absolutely have to have, because if the HCI is down, our assembly lines are down, and that could potentially lead to our customer being down. If our customer is down, that's $10,000 a minute; and any time the assembly line is down, that could potentially lead to overtime. We don't get to charge one and a half times for something we billed just because you happened to build it on overtime. Any technology we bring in, has to be built for what I call "three in the morning." It can't be built for whenever everybody's in the plant, everybody can watch it, and everybody can babysit. It has to be built for three a.m. when you've got a skeletal staff there, and you just have to know that it's just running. As I stand here, right now, I don't have to check my phone, I don't have to check my email. I know it's running. Period"
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"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."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"It can be made cheaper."
"They should improve just the support."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"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 problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"I'm not a fan of how they don't log you out properly from some of their web tools for management."
"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"The networking needs improvement."
"I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."
Earn 20 points
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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