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 also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"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."
"The solution works well."
"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."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"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."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product is expensive."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product does not support file services."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
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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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