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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs HPE Alletra dHCI comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE Alletra dHCI
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
HCI (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

Nuno Mendes - PeerSpot reviewer
High performance solution that makes it easy to efficiently manage VM resources
In our case as a credit recovery company working with the state, our infrastructure is fixed and stable as we don't have the same need for growth as other types of companies. That said, 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. Since we as a company will only be operating for perhaps the next ten years, when our HyperFlex solution comes to its end-of-life in 2024 our next step will likely not be with HyperFlex or any other solution from Cisco. Instead, from a financial point of view, we will likely turn toward a cloud solution because, that way, we won't have to spend so much money on physical infrastructure. We are, after all, only a small company and HyperFlex can be very expensive for other companies of our size, whether in Portugal or elsewhere like the United States. One other area for improvement is in regard to HyperFlex's integration with VMware. HyperFlex integrates with a specific version of VMware in such a way that HyperFlex doesn't always resolve security issues with VMware at the same pace as what you see in native implementations of VMware. This has happened in one or two situations in the past. On the other hand, the integration is otherwise adequate, especially in terms of availability and virtualization features (such as being able to split up each of our four hosts within VMware).
Antonin Pavlik - PeerSpot reviewer
Effortless upgrades with one-click feature while new server deployment needs a smoother process
I have a data center, and all the servers are connected to HPE Alletra dHCI. I use it for data management with VMware running on the servers The most valuable feature of HPE Alletra dHCI is the one-click upgrade function, which allows all drivers and services to be downloaded to all servers…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The solution works well."
"The latency is very low."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
 

Cons

"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"We are working with a lot of different technologies and trying to manage them with one tool. The API could be improved for better integration with other systems."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"They should improve just the support."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"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."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required to use this solution."
"The price is a bit too high."
"Here in Brazil... it is very expensive. It's very hard for almost all companies to buy even the small version of this solution."
"Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this."
"Comparable solutions with switches, storage, and services are cheaper than HyperFlex. It should be cheaper."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."
"We have a yearly license."
"The solution’s pricing was very good."
"The price of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is expensive."
"The prices are very high."
"I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent."
"The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable."
"I would rate the licensing model a three out of ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is cheap."
"The product is costly."
"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Educational Organization
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?
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HPE Nimble Storage dHCI
 

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Sample Customers

BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Ready Pac Foods, Bryant University, Bellevue Group, KPIT Technologies, City Harvest
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