Cisco HyperFlex vs Pivot3 Acuity

• 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.

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• Deployment was very easy. Pivot3 staff were involved in the POC, and the transition was fairly smooth.
• This is an all-flash hyperconverged cluster. It is easily scalable and has excellent performance.
• We frequently burst internal virtual workloads, and this 5 node cluster can support around 15,000 IOPs and 1 GB/sec of throughput.

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• replication - as we need to use the same amount to storage to backup
• Cisco should come up with a strong hypervisor equal to vmware ESXi
• should come up with the repository of OS images and download automatically when a new OS version is released
• hybrid connectivity - missing

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• The cluster is actually very easy to use. It might be nice if the dashboard had more detailed metrics, but those are available in a different interface.

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• 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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• Definitely a positive ROI. We are not seeing some of the latency issues that were beginning to crop up on our older hardware.

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