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

"I really highly recommend Cisco due to its stability and scalability, and also the performance of the equipment."

"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."

"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."

"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."

"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."

"It is easy for one person to manage, and you don't need to have different expert specialists to configure your storage networking, on the server side, power side, etc."

"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."

"The product is stable; no one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."

"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."

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

"It's helpful as you stand on high-end storage. Alletra offers up to 99% availability, providing excellent stability. You also get the benefits of an HCI solution with a template and upgradability at any time."

"The solution is easy to use."

"The integration of AI tools for predictive analysis sets it apart from competitors."

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

"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 easily, and the smart deduplication and smart compression features help save a lot of storage."

"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."

"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."

"The initial setup can be complex."

"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."

"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."

"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."

"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web."

"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use 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."

"Definitely from a price perspective it's quite expensive, but looking at the performance and the support system that we have with HPE Nimble, it's really good."

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

"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 would like the HPE Alletra dHCI to provide options to install products separately."

"In our current scenario, only HPE engineers can deploy. An engineer with general-purpose skills cannot deploy those systems."

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

"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."

"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."

"We negotiated with Cisco and we got some price benefit from that."

"The price is a bit too high."

"If you don't look at the costs of the systems, the scalability is quite good."

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

"I would like a clearer licensing model. It should explain a bit more what you receive if you buy the more expensive license rather than the standard one."

"There is a recurring cost for the VMware license and the HyperFlex licenses."

"When we negotiated with Cisco for the HyperFlex solution, they gave us a good price because they wanted to break into the market in Portugal for the first time. However, in general, I think it's a very expensive solution. It's a huge amount of money to acquire this kind of infrastructure."

"For customers in the private sector, this product can have a very high return on investment."

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

"I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent."

"The prices are very high."

"The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable."

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is much cheaper than the competition and has value proposition. Customers can see an ROI in three months. There are no additional costs, and VMware licenses can be reutilized."

"The product is costly."

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

"I would rate the licensing model a three out of ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is cheap."