We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE Alletra dHCI 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."It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"It is a very stable solution."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"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."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The latency is very low."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"Its interface could be better."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StorPool, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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