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."It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The solution is stable."
"On the VDI side, because the storage is local to the HyperFlex, it was very easy and convenient. The performance is exceptional."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"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 has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"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."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"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."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"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."
"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."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"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."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product does not support file services."
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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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