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."The price was right."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."
"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."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"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."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"Very good in-line compression."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"The technical support services are good."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The documentation could be better."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"Its price could be better."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product is expensive."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"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."
"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."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"They should improve just the support."
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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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