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."Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It's quite easy to install."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"This is not the only product we use, so we have other solutions to compare it with. We can compare different products and different vendors and tell our customers which products have which advantages and disadvantages so that they can leverage these products in their own environment. This product helps us to understand the customer's needs and what issues they can run into."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"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."
"The technical support services are good."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"They require more media visibility."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"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 solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"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."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"The product does not support file services."
"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."
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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 11th 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 Sangfor HCI - 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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