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.
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"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."
"The solution works well."
"The latency is very low."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"It comes all in one box."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"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."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The product does not support file services."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"They should improve just the support."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"The solution must provide other hypervisors."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
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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