We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE Alletra dHCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"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."
"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."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The latency is very low."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"Very good in-line compression."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"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."
"They require more media visibility."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"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 can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"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 performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"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."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"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."
"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 product's active controller feature needs 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 12th in HCI with 23 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) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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