
We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team." "Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions." "The initial setup is a little bit complicated." "HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better." "I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. "The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options." "The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed." "The ROI is great on this product." "The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly." "The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent." "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."" "It's quite easy to manage." "The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage." "StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails." "As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other.

Some users say HPE Nimble Storage dHCI can be a bit buggy and should provide better file-level restoration and DVX system options. The storage virtualization layers and super fast backups make it extremely valuable. It is a very user-friendly, simple product to use, implement, and manage. Users say HPE SimpliVity is the more comprehensive product. Service and Support: Users of both solutions are satisfied with the service and support they have received.Ĭomparison Results: Both of these HPE solutions are part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise brand of excellent data management products.Pricing: Users of both solutions feel the pricing is expensive.Users would like to see better integrations with other platforms and third-party solutions. Users can control everything from one central location. The interface is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Two features HPE SimpliVity users appreciate are the super fast backup and the Performing Disaster Recovery (PDR). Users feel the solution should provide more hypervisor options and better integrations. Features: Users of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI say it does a great job taking storage snapshots, the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads, and the solution provides high performance.Ease of Deployment: For the most part, users of both solutions say deployment is complex and recommend using a trained specialist.


After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below. We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity based on our users’ reviews in four categories.
