We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE Alletra dHCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"Support is very responsive."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"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."
"The documentation could be better."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"They should improve just the support."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail.
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