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."This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"Very good in-line compression."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The technical support services are good."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"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."
"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"
"The initial setup can be complex."
"If we compare it with VMware, the VMware product is basically very open, and it can be easily integrated with any platform. VMware product is also available on the cloud and is not an appliance-based product, whereas Cisco HyperFlex is an appliance-based product. Companies that want to use HCI as a platform or as a service would prefer something without an appliance. A SaaS-based product is better for a customer who is using the cloud and has multiple resources, workflows, and devices on the cloud and wants to go for a hyper-converged solution. This is where improvement is needed. In addition to an appliance-based product, Cisco should provide a SaaS-based product. Its price should be lower. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Its price is a big road blocker when competing against Nutanix and VMware, which are its main competitors."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"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."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"The product does not support file services."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
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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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