We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Alletra dHCI 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."StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"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."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"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."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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