We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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."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 ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"Great integration with backup software."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"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 easy to use."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"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."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The product is expensive."
"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 performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"They should improve just the support."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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