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 most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"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."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"On the VDI side, because the storage is local to the HyperFlex, it was very easy and convenient. The performance is exceptional."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"Support is very responsive."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"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."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The technical support services are good."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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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