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."The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"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"
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"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 think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"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."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of 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."
"They should improve just the support."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"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."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th 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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