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."When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"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."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"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."
"Very good in-line compression."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"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."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"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."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"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."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"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."
"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."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The product is expensive."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"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) and Dell PowerFlex, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and VxRail.
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