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

"Cisco offers very good quality."

"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."

"This is not the only product we use, so we have other solutions to compare it with. We can compare different products and different vendors and tell our customers which products have which advantages and disadvantages so that they can leverage these products in their own environment. This product helps us to understand the customer's needs and what issues they can run into."

"The solution scales extremely well."

"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."

"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."

"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."

"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."

"The solution works well."

"The technical support services are good."

"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."

"HPE Alletra dHCI was good because we could have the vVols, which we are using for our production server, with the snapshots."

"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."

"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."

"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."

"The latency is very low."

"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"

"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."

"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."

"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."

"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."

"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."

"The initial setup can be complex."

"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."

"The deployment of a new server could be improved."

"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."

"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."

"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."

"The product does not support file services."

"Lacking integration to the cloud."

"I can tier my data in different storage on the cloud, but I cannot tier the data with HPE Alletra dHCI."

"They could expand product support to Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Linux platforms."

"The product is expensive. Other solutions are cheaper."

"Its price is high. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Nutanix or VMware are cheaper products, and they provide almost the same functionality. Its price is a big road blocker when we are working with an end customer, and Nutanix and VMware are in competition. If they can reduce its price, it is actually a better choice for customers."

"The licensing is perpetual and the only thing that you may need to pay for on a monthly basis is if you're going to use their cloud-based management features."

"It's much more expensive than rack servers. It was an issue, but when you compare it to the number of people who were administrative assistants before, it's on the positive ROI side. It's much cheaper."

"Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this."

"Pricing is better if you buy more Cisco products."

"Cisco is quite expensive, but not in the initial first buy."

"One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month."

"The solution’s pricing was very good."

"The product is very affordable."

"The price of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is expensive."

"The product is costly."

"With the features that HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides, I cannot say its pricing is more."

"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."