We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."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."
"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."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The product does not support file services."
"The product is expensive."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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