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- Pivot3 Acuity (formerly vSTAC) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
Cisco HyperFlex
88%
17 Ratings

9.0
Pivot3 Acuity
90%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
Cisco HyperFlex
100%
1 Rating

Pivot3 Acuity
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
9.0
Cisco HyperFlex
90%
1 Rating

Pivot3 Acuity
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
8.7
Cisco HyperFlex
87%
19 Ratings

Pivot3 Acuity
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
10.0
Cisco HyperFlex
100%
1 Rating

Pivot3 Acuity
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco HyperFlex
Hyperflex is best for customers who already have Cisco UCS because of its integration with UCS fabric interconnects. You can add UCS blades to your Hyperflex cluster to increase compute capacity without increasing storage--which is great depending on your needs--but it's still limited to UCS. Installations without fabric interconnects have been limited in scope and most importantly expandability. I like that it doesn't require data locality. While I've used Nutanix extensively and SimpliVity to a less extent, I'm not as sold on their use of it. On the one hand your reads are faster if they're all from the node currently running a VM, but it also means your data has to move around if you vmotion your VMs. I do feel that Cisco has been playing catchup for a few years now with Nutanix, but Hyperflex has become a decent product that I would recommend to my customers where it's a good fit. However, I recommend being careful to make sure that it has all the features you need.

Verified User
Professional in Professional Services
Computer Hardware Company, 201-500 employeesPivot3 Acuity
It is only suitable for a vSphere deployment. This particular cluster is best suited for very demanding workloads.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employeesPros
Cisco HyperFlex
- 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.
Sr. Practice Manager - Cloud & Platform
KPITInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Pivot3 Acuity
- 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.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employeesCons
Cisco HyperFlex
- 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

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesPivot3 Acuity
- 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.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employeesPricing Details
Cisco HyperFlex
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Pivot3 Acuity
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Cisco HyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlex 10.0
Based on 1 answer
We are doing it in the current moment. The platform expansion will be twofold.
IT Infastructure Team Lead
ArcelorMittal TemirtauMining & Metals, 10,001+ employees
Pivot3 Acuity
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Cisco HyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlex 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Everything is fine if you work as a user of the system. Difficulties in fine tuning the system.
IT Infastructure Team Lead
ArcelorMittal TemirtauMining & Metals, 10,001+ employees
Pivot3 Acuity
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Cisco HyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlex 8.7
Based on 19 answers
Nowadays being agile and efficient is most really important. Hyperflex has the ability to be agile and efficient. Cisco HyperFlex functions based on UCS technology, it includes built-in networking and integrated management with pre-configured software. Cisco HyperFlex has everything in one place as a data center, so there is no need to focus on extra things.
Application Development Associate
AccentureInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees
Pivot3 Acuity
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Cisco HyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlex 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Fast, powerful, flexible.
IT Infastructure Team Lead
ArcelorMittal TemirtauMining & Metals, 10,001+ employees
Pivot3 Acuity
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cisco HyperFlex
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.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 employeesPivot3 Acuity
We reviewed the technology and pricing prior to commencing a POC. Pivot3 looked the best initially and delivered. We did not test the others ourselves.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employeesReturn on Investment
Cisco HyperFlex
- 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.
Technical Team Lead Network & Security
Missing Piece BVInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Pivot3 Acuity
- Definitely a positive ROI. We are not seeing some of the latency issues that were beginning to crop up on our older hardware.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employees