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."Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"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."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"The solution is stable."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"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."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The product provides zero downtime."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"Very good in-line compression."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The latency is very low."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"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."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"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."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product does not support file services."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"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."
"They should improve just the support."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
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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