We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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."The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"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."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"The customer service has been the most valuable feature of the product to me."
"The sales process is easy."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"StarWind is very resilient and built off of quality vendor hardware."
"High-availability is what I bought it for."
"Their support team is extremely helpful, and they are pretty friendly and knowledgeable."
"StarWind's proactive support is my favorite feature."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The product is expensive."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"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 truth is that the operation and support offered is good, but we consider that the product's usability could improve, as well as the data resynchronization time after an unexpected closure."
"At the moment, the initial configuration is very technical and error-prone. That is the reason Starwind does it for you as a service, which is a great thing. But it would be nice if we could change or rearrange storage assignments ourselves."
"I honestly cannot think of anything else to be improved, as I rarely have to interact with the Starwind product."
"We ran into some issues with going from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Hyper-V 2019."
"The monitoring and report software is a bit hit and miss."
"The monitoring and reporting console can be improved in the sense that it can have more information on it."
"Possible new features could be CSV-level snapshot capability, Veeam integration, and maybe a more straightforward setup. Granted, you don't have to worry about setups with the HCA, but if you want to implement StarWind vSAN in a lab to test it is a tedious setup process."
"This product is not one hundred percent enterprise-ready, so it is more suitable for SMB."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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