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

"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."

"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."

"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."

"I find the usability very valuable."

"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."

"The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."

"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."

"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."

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

"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."

"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 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 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."

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

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."

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

"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."

"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."

"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."

"The solution could improve by having more customization."

"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."

"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."

"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."

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

"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."

"The product could be cheaper."

"Comparable solutions with switches, storage, and services are cheaper than HyperFlex. It should be cheaper."

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

"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."

"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."

"We would not have invested if we didn't feel the return was there for our customers."

"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 price is a bit too high."

"The solution’s pricing was very good."

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

"The prices are very high."

"The product licensing costs vary depending on whether VMware or other solutions are used."

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

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

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

"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."