We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"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."
"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."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The product is expensive."
"They should improve just the support."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"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."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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