Compare Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vs. NetApp HCI
Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is ranked 16th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 1 review while NetApp HCI is ranked 8th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 28 reviews. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while NetApp HCI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure writes "Reliable with fair pricing, but the interface could be more user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp HCI writes "A strong and efficient product that can scale storage and compute independently". Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Nutanix, VMware vSAN and VxRail, whereas NetApp HCI is most compared with Nutanix, VMware vSAN and VxRail.
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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. The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run. The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained. 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. The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network. The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center. The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization. The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers. | The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it. | The solution is very scalable. The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously. It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well. It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute. HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth. The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path. The multi-vertical aspect is what is most valuable for us. The main reason we wanted a multi protocol was because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data as we could get from Linux and Windows lengths. That was our value proposition for this solution. The ease of deployment is a positive feature that allows us to scale easily. |
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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 We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users. 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. 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. The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila. The scalability could use improvement. The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running. We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution. | The solution currently does not have cloud integration. | The networking needs improvement. My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself. The product needs better support for installing the operating system on the machine. It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler. The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem. The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products. There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management. It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations. |
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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. We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet. Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have. 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. It is relatively expensive, but it can easily return value by freeing up other resources. It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year. Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this. They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive." | Information Not Available | Licenses run on a yearly basis, and there aren't any additional fees other than the standard licensing fee. The licensing fees are renewed annually. This solution reduced our maintenance costs. We were going to have to pay one to two million dollars to put in compute nodes. We are avoiding those costs. You still have to pay for the licensing for VMware and Red Hat licenses separately. It's not all inclusive at this point. All the licenses are included when you buy the program. There are the overall infrastructure costs. Even though the initial costing was higher, we calculated for year-to-year for five years. That brought us into a position where we decided, we have to go for HCI rather than having distributor systems. This solution saved our organization time (35 percent) and money. We have a hefty group of developers, and if you multiply that by 30 to 35 percent, that is quite a bit of money. Where we lost nearly 75 percent of our infrastructure due to a malicious attack and were able to recover two and a half hours into it due to the integration, it saved us and all of our customers. Because we were able to recover so fast from the attack, the solution paid for itself right there. |
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| FusionCube 6000, FusionCube 6000C, FusionCube 2000, FusionCube Virtual SAN-Ready Nodes | ||
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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:
| Huawei FusionCube is a hyper-converged infrastructure, which consists of computing, storage, network, virtualization, and management systems. | NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots. |
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Learn more about Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series | Learn more about Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure | Learn more about NetApp HCI |
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| BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Ready Pac Foods, Bryant University, Bellevue Group, KPIT Technologies, City Harvest | Information Not Available | American Showa, Children's Mercy, Coca-Cola, Consultel Cloud, Evangelische Landeskirche in Wurttemberg, Imperva, Surface Mount Technology |
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Manufacturing Company18% Comms Service Provider12% Energy/Utilities Company12% Healthcare Company9% Software R&D Company36% Comms Service Provider13% Retailer6% Manufacturing Company6% | Comms Service Provider25% Software R&D Company25% Media Company14% Government14% | Manufacturing Company14% Insurance Company14% Financial Services Firm14% Pharma/Biotech Company14% Software R&D Company43% Manufacturing Company13% Comms Service Provider10% Media Company4% |
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Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise75% Small Business4% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise78% | No Data Available | Small Business21% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise52% |
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