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

 

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

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

"Scalability is easy and simple."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"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."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"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."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The product provides zero downtime."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"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 solution is easy to use."
"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."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
 

Cons

"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"The initial setup of the Cisco HyperFlex HX platform was medium-level difficult. It's a little bit different from traditional servers. It takes getting used to the learning curve."
"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."
"The deployment of a new server could be improved."
"I would like the HPE Alletra dHCI to provide options to install products separately."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"I can tier my data in different storage on the cloud, but I cannot tier the data with HPE Alletra dHCI."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"There is a 30 percent additional premium that all the companies are charging for Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series because of the lack of chips and bottlenecks in the market. The cost of the solution is high right now."
"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."
"HyperFlex is relatively expensive, but you get good value for money."
"Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this."
"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."
"I would like the pricing to be cheaper."
"Pricing is better if you buy more Cisco products."
"With the features that HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides, I cannot say its pricing is more."
"The product is costly."
"The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable."
"The prices are very high."
"I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent."
"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."
"The solution’s pricing was very good."
"The product is very affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Educational Organization
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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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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