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Feature Set Ratings
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Cisco HyperFlex
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

8.9
Pure Storage FlashArray
89%
Pure Storage FlashArray ranks higher in 6/6 features
Pure Storage FlashArray ranks higher in 6/6 features
Flash Array Performance
N/A
0 Ratings

9.9
99%
156 Ratings
Flash Array Integration
N/A
0 Ratings

9.9
99%
146 Ratings
Data Compression
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
91%
155 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
N/A
0 Ratings

7.4
74%
150 Ratings
Simplicity
N/A
0 Ratings

9.5
95%
156 Ratings
Power Savings
N/A
0 Ratings

7.8
78%
133 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Cisco HyperFlex is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Usability, Implementation Rating
- Pure Storage FlashArray is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
Cisco HyperFlex
88%
17 Ratings

9.9
Pure Storage FlashArray
99%
209 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
Cisco HyperFlex
100%
1 Rating

8.9
Pure Storage FlashArray
89%
27 Ratings
Usability
9.0
Cisco HyperFlex
90%
1 Rating

8.7
Pure Storage FlashArray
87%
18 Ratings
Availability
Cisco HyperFlex
N/A
0 Ratings

8.7
Pure Storage FlashArray
87%
8 Ratings
Performance
Cisco HyperFlex
N/A
0 Ratings

8.5
Pure Storage FlashArray
85%
8 Ratings
Support Rating
8.7
Cisco HyperFlex
87%
19 Ratings

9.9
Pure Storage FlashArray
99%
143 Ratings
In-Person Training
Cisco HyperFlex
N/A
0 Ratings

8.6
Pure Storage FlashArray
86%
4 Ratings
Online Training
Cisco HyperFlex
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
Pure Storage FlashArray
82%
2 Ratings
Implementation Rating
10.0
Cisco HyperFlex
100%
1 Rating

9.1
Pure Storage FlashArray
91%
13 Ratings
Product Scalability
Cisco HyperFlex
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
Pure Storage FlashArray
82%
5 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 employeesPure Storage FlashArray
When you need speed, it's FAST, especially for MS SQL databases. If you are having bottlenecks, you can spend your time finding it in the code because it's not Pure Storage. Love the data reduction and duplication. We can store so much more on this unit than the base physical size. Love the data snapshots. When you need to complete copy your entire environment for testing etc. Nothing is easier, a few clicks and you are done. Extremely helpful for testing and training.
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Paramount AcceptanceFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Pros
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
Pure Storage FlashArray
- The Pure Array does data reduction particularly well. We've seen a 7x reduction on some of our volumes.
- It is easy to get used to the system after coming from other storage arrays.
- It has some welcome additions such as a smartphone app that makes it easier to view your cases, etc.
Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems
Cancer Research UKNon-Profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees
Cons
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 employeesPure Storage FlashArray
- Reporting is too general. Being a tech nerd, I want to be able to see the nitty-gritty details. I also need to be able to define canned sets of reports for problem application systems.
- Pricing is a bit higher then some of their direct competitors .
- Seriously, I have nothing else.
Storage Architect
JBS USAFood Production, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Cisco HyperFlex
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Pure Storage FlashArray
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
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 8.9
Based on 27 answers
It has so far been a very fast and stable product. We have had wonderful support when we have needed it and the account manager and engineer attached to our organization have been very responsive with any questions and concerns we have had.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employeesUsability
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
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 8.7
Based on 18 answers
The install went smoothly, and the engineer explained every step along the way. The next couple of days he checked in to make sure that migration was running as planned. The user interface is designed with usability in mind. You don't need a dedicated "Storage Silo" to manage this product. For smaller IT departments that need to support many different workloads, this could not be a better feature
IT Director
Town of BelchertownGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees
Reliability and Availability
Cisco HyperFlex
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 8.7
Based on 8 answers
We have never had an outage with Purestorage. Yes we have had 2 drives go out but replacements were installed so fast there wasn't any issues. We have had a NVRAM module replaced but were noticed from Pure they were sending a replacement because they were predicting a failure so pure was proactive preventing any issues. Knowing Pure is monitoring our device 24x7 gives us peace of mind.
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Paramount AcceptanceFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Performance
Cisco HyperFlex
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 8.5
Based on 8 answers
The corporation has a very diverse data load and when we migrate from a hybrid storage to pure all-flash, significant gains have already been observed. Latency always remains below 1 ms regardless of the load and volumetry used. Application performance also depends heavily on whether or not the code is more permormatic and network access infrastructure. The product has been meeting expectations

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employeesSupport 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
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 9.9
Based on 143 answers
Pure Support is timely and communicative. They are always ready to assist and very skilled at what they do, no matter the time of day. Even at 12:10 a.m. on New Years Day when your array has a hiccup that causes some errors in your environment, they will be on the phone with you in an instant. If they are unable to determine the cause right away, because things appear to be normal, they will take your environment's configuration, lab it up in their support environment and then research until they figure out what caused the problem. Even if it takes 3 months. True story.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 1001-5000 employeesIn-Person Training
Cisco HyperFlex
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 8.6
Based on 4 answers
Excellent training and really you don't need that much. We received training at the Pure offices and also on site when the product was installed. Simple things like how to login to the GUI interface, how to setup users, how to create volume and mount it. How to make a snapshot, how to copy it and mount it. Really is pretty self explanatory on how to do things with the GUI interface. We were expecting complicated base on other vendor products, we got super simple.
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Paramount AcceptanceFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Online Training
Cisco HyperFlex
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 8.2
Based on 2 answers
Great videos and documentation. There is a common theme with PureStorage, "Keep it elegantly simple". They have great support network and great support user groups. Documentation has been very helpful with providing auditors with methods and procedures on security and other ways the product works. Great documentation on setting PureStorage to be the most effective with VM's, SQL Server, and other products.
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Paramount AcceptanceFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
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
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 9.1
Based on 13 answers
The install was very quick. The engineer that Pure sent said that if we started by 10 am we would be done by lunchtime, and he was not kidding.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives 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 employeesPure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray came up as being the most cost-effective of the lot plus the extras added like call-home support were very welcome. The competitors' options were a lot more expensive and the call-home support added a lot more to the already high costs.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employeesScalability
Cisco HyperFlex
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray 8.2
Based on 5 answers
In our case we have equipment in all of Latin America in different data centers and with the mobile app or with pure1 we have everything centralized in just one

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Translation and Localization Company, 1001-5000 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
Pure Storage FlashArray
- Thanks to the deduplication that is built into the product we are seeing great reduction in total space required by consolidating similar data types on the same array.
- Our users are very pleased with the performance.
- The replication allowed us to move our workload from to another data center with minimal downtime.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees