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."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."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It is extremely stable."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"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."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Very good in-line compression."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"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 is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The technical support services are good."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"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."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"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."
"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's active controller feature needs improvement."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
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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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