We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."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."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"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."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"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 product is expensive."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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