We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3 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 license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"Very good in-line compression."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The solution is scalable."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"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."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of 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."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"The product could use a better control center."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 16th in HCI with 8 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8. 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 Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE SimpliVity. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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