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

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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

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HPE Alletra dHCI

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

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reviewer2133501

Assistant VP, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Effective deduplication feature, but lacks a unified architecture

Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could be improved by reducing the number of nodes. Currently, the architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts. For example, if I need around 200 servers with a requirement of TB of storage, I would need 200 clusters, which can be quite cumbersome. Other solutions like Dell and Nutanix have a single combined unit that includes computing, memory, and storage, which can reduce the number of nodes required and also reduce licensing and power consumption. Therefore, I suggest improving the architecture of the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series by combining computing, memory, and storage into a single unit, making it more efficient and easier to manage. It will also reduce the number of nodes required and licensing costs and help to reduce power consumption. I would like to see improved internal integration capabilities in the next release. Currently, it is constrained only to VMware only. So, there is no integration part of the RAC or IEL or anything, and it isn't easy to manage it. If I want to hold another partner, then that part will not be possible. So, you have to manage that particular integration. Another feature could be in terms of memory usage.

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Mohamed-Mousa

IT Manager at a media company with 201-500 employees

Modern infrastructure has supported critical business services and delivers strong data protection

To be honest, I did not make any changes in Nimble, and the same applies to StoreOnce. The system is built and ready-made. It was already built before we received it, but overall, everything is clear and direct, and there is nothing complex, so I do not need to do a deep dive in the system to resolve or change anything. I do not use HPE Nimble Storage HPE Alletra dHCI intelligent automation. I do not use intelligent data services in managing my data infrastructure. I have not actually used additional functionality for Nimble Storage HPE Alletra dHCI right now, but I think this feature is very useful, especially AI. AI is involved in any software now, and I do not use it in my system, but I think it's very useful.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The implementation process is okay."

"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."

"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."

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

"It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected."

"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."

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

"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"

"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."

"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."

"HPE Alletra dHCI is very comfortable with high performance and quick installation."

"There are many benefits and advantages from Nimble Storage HPE Alletra dHCI, first of all, we save money; when we were comparing between HPE and other competitors, we compared servers' equivalent money, which led us to decide to take an HPE product because it's a benefit for the money, it's not expensive and it supports our needs."

"The solution is easy to use."

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

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Cons

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

"Its price could be better."

"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."

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

"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."

"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."

"The initial setup can be a bit complex."

"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."

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

"Lacking integration to the cloud."

"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."

"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."

"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."

"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"I would like the pricing to be cheaper."

"Here in Brazil... it is very expensive. It's very hard for almost all companies to buy even the small version of this solution."

"The pricing is a bit expensive."

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

"Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is expensive. It's a standard license, and we pay for it yearly. I think we pay about 700."

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"The product is costly."

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

"The product is very affordable."

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

"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."

"The solution’s pricing was very good."

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Top Industries

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Marketing Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	24
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	57

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Small Business	25
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

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Pricing is rated at six, which is normal. The price is appropriate for the capabilities and features that the customers receive.

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What needs improvement with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

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What is your primary use case for HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

We are using VMware in this product as a software, and our infrastructure is built in HPE Alletra dHCI system, which includes our CRM, Exchange servers, domain servers, payroll servers, and CRM as ...

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HPE Nimble Storage dHCI

Overview

The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform is a purpose-built, high-performance, scale-out file system with a wide array of enterprise-class data management services. The data platform’s innovations redefine distributed storage technology, giving you complete hyper-convergence with enterprise storage features:

Enterprise-class data management
Continuous data optimization
Securely encrypted storage
Dynamic data placement
Clusterwide parallel data distribution
Linear and incremental scaling
API-based data platform architecture
A simplified approach

Cisco

HPE Alletra dHCI, a data storage solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), offers Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI), separating storage from compute resources for independent scaling and management. Utilizing HPE Nimble Storage technology, known for AI-driven optimization, it ensures high performance and management efficiency. With scalability and agility, users can effortlessly expand storage or processing power as data requirements evolve. Additionally, boasting rapid deployment in under 15 minutes and a claimed 99.9999% data availability, HPE Alletra dHCI promises robust and reliable storage solutions.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sample Customers

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

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