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 StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"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."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"The solution works well."
"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."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"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."
"The product does not support file services."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product is expensive."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 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, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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