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    Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ACisco HyperFlex Systems is a hyper-converged infrastructure product, based on technology acquired with SpringPath (acquired September 2017). Cisco's modern HCI solution is Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix.N/A
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    No
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Cisco HyperFlex is the brain and control for applications and solutions delivered in the ecosystem of customers using Decsis Datacenter in a multi-site, multi-customer environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Ease of installation from cloud Cloud management Overall installation of the product is better
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    I feel HyperFlex provide a more robust user interface and interaction with your storage. It allows for easy deployment of LUNs and connectivity to your Hosts. The ease of use provides a better end user experience to those new to the storage and virtualization platforms. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    VMware vSAN is more elastic and easy to sell as you can have more flexibility with the hardware and can use or just upgrade hardware already deployment in the client infrastructure and additionally its have no dependencies about the DNS/NTP, what is important..
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    its outdated if you run hyperflex
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Hyperflex is that it is a simplified product that assists in the storage of software data and also provides an infrastructure for data optimization and network management quickly and efficiently.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Cisco HyperFlex is a more mature product. The management of the HyperFlex provides better customability of the hardware.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Cisco HyperfFex near is natively integrated with this solution, we haven't seen problems on performance or integration
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Cisco tech support is one of the best in the market
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Cisco was selected due to more favorable financing. HPE financing was more difficult to obtain. Hyperflex is very different from other solutions - highly redundant with a fast backplane, but many techs are not familiar with the solution and typically prefer the more traditional …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Compares favorably to Nutanix and SimpliVity. Nutanix however has been around longer and has a bigger feature set than Hyperflex, which is in Nutanix's favor. However, while Nutanix does everything, it doesn't always do everything well.

    SimpliVity on the other hand tends to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Cisco HyperFlex is easier to manage than other BladeSystem or Hyper-Converged systems. I would say it is in line with Pure Storage Arrays as far as ease of use goes.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    As part of the solution, Cisco HyperFlex gives you more options for managing, monitoring and controlling your enterprise infrastructure. The mobility and flexibility of the services allow administrators full control of the server farm and services. In addition, the availability …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    HyperFlex is built on top of Cisco UCS infrastructure, which allows us to manage other non-HX servers attached to the same UCS environment. This allows us to tie everything together via Intersight and see all of the servers in our data centers. Other platforms don't really …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Interestingly enough, depending on which box you purchased the two may be able to be combined into one setup. The UCS series is great and provides a lot of compute but lacks the storage. Hyperfex has a bit less compute but contains lots of storage space and memory needed for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    It's more of an all in one solution
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Cisco's offering is less subject to vendor lock-in. We can refurbish those servers if needed, which is a great ability to have.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    HyperFlex had the best technical solution fitting into our problems.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    HyperFlex is truly hyper-converged and easier to scale than traditional compute and storage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    HX stacks up well ahead of the competition (we are running all the three HCI's) in terms of performance, stability, seamless integration with network backbone (no conflicts!), unified management of UCSM and most importantly, it helped us setup data centre level HA just with 2 …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    StarWind HCA
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    StarWind HCA
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (27 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Smaller sites that would benefit from a cluster of 2-5 nodes. Not saying that it can't scale above that, but I find HyperFlex a great solution for those sites. A simple 3-node edge cluster can provide a huge amount of resources and redundancy. It's also really easy to scale the environment to meet growth requirements.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • UCS manager in HX is truly helping us in doing one touch firmware upgrades. Scaling of HX cluster (in few minutes) is too seamlessly due to service profiles.
    • HX does not hold you back by creating a single data store unlike other HCI products. With HX, you can create multiple data stores and allocate those to desired services. This help logically separate the install base on HX and removes confusion for the admins too.
    • We run high IOPs workload on HX, and we never felt latency issues due to the Cisco backbone (as you get FI as a TOR switch and options to choose 10G or 40G speeds).
    • With HX you truly enjoy a single window support from Cisco including for the top of the rack switch (FI in HX case). In other HCI infra, you certainly have to bank on to network switch vendor for support and bring HCI and switch vendor at one pane for troubleshooting latency related issues.
    • While we increased our footprint on HX, we didn't added additional administrators to support the landscape. This was possible because of the simplicity in managing HX clusters.
    • With HX we had setup stretched cluster between two near site data centres. This is a unique proposition in HX (we have 2 nodes in each data centre) and data centre failover works absolutely seamless.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • there is the problem with starting cluster where there are not outside DNS and NTP services so we need to workaround this with additional storage or hosting it on the local storage.. many clusters has internal DNS/NTP services not available from outside and they need to be hosted on the HX
    • there is not RBAC or user mgmt on the CVMs so it is difficult to not add full permission for the people responsible for just shutdown and power on the cluster
    • native snapshots support with ibm backup products
    • running from not the only last snapshot in all use cases
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    We are doing it in the current moment. The platform expansion will be twofold.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Everything is fine if you work as a user of the system. Difficulties in fine tuning the system.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    More documentation is available now than when the product initially came out (which was an issue early on). Because it only supports UCS hardware, I think it does help with support issues. Nutanix has to support much more hardware. At the same time, you're dealing with the Cisco TAC, which can be mixed at times.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Fast, powerful, flexible.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    HyperFlex is built on top of Cisco UCS infrastructure, which allows us to manage other non-HX servers attached to the same UCS environment. This allows us to tie everything together via Intersight and see all of the servers in our data centers. Other platforms don't really have a comparable offering.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The simplified management makes it easier to operate and prevents mistakes.
    • Guided installation using the installer VM means you don't have to configure every component by hand. Improves deployment speed and lowers the risk of configuration issues.
    • Performance increase of 40-90% compared to our previous compute/storage cluster.
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