Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued) Reviews & Insights

Score7.9 out of 10

59 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient Deployment Process: Users have praised the platform for its quick server deployment, stating that it takes less than 30 minutes to build a server to support their business application.

Ease of Use and Scalability: Reviewers found the platform easy to install, manage, and expand, emphasizing its user-friendly interface and scalability options.

Excellent Storage Capacity: Many users appreciated the platform's excellent storage capacity, which contributes to cost reduction in companies and makes implementation very straightforward.

Seamless Maintenance Processes: Users highlighted that updates and repairs could be done without disruption, showcasing the platform's seamless maintenance processes.

Integration with Cisco Ecosystem: The platform was described as efficient, fast, and integrated well with other Cisco products in the ecosystem.

User-Friendly Interface for End-Users: Users noted that the platform is easy to understand for end-users in terms of technology understanding and activities on both Day-0 and Day-1.

Efficient Snapshots in VMware: Praise was given for efficient snapshots in VMware provided by the platform, enhancing data management capabilities.

Reliable Storage Capabilities: The platform was commended for providing reliable storage solutions that meet user expectations.

Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued) Reviews

28 Reviews

Cisco HyperFlex Doesn't Disappoint!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 21, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, we design HyperFlex Solutions and sell them to our customers. We solve a multitude of their business and operational problems, via our Cisco HyperFlex solutions. Some of those problems are lack of computing power in their environment, lack of storage, or primarily network connectivity upgrades.

Pros

Easy to install
Easy to manage
Easy to expand

Cons

Centralized management
A 3D visualizing tool for partners to show customers while pitching the solution

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco HyperFlex is well suited for general-purpose scenarios in enterprise companies, as well as niche situations such as gaming companies, off-shore companies, etc. I couldn't fault it.

Eleni Tatsi

Solutions Associate in Information Technology at Softcat (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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At Decsis we manage Cisco solutions to deliver data center services

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 6, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization Decsis, manages Cisco HyperFlex for public customers providing a cloud of multi/services to shareholders in a multi-site and multi-service ecosystem. Cisco HyperFlex provides the integration, manageability and resilient framework to achieve optimal results and performance for users.

Pros

Managing
Integration
Scalability
Resilience

Cons

Expansion
Multivendor

Likelihood to Recommend

Multi-services, multi-org scenario. Complex ecosystems, critical infrastructures like hospitals.

Verified User

Director in Human Resources (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

7 years of experience

Cisco HyperFlex review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My Organization uses Cisco HyperFlex to integrate VM and storage resources. We also provide backup. Cisco HyperFlex has a feature to monitor performance and it is easy to capture the data. Efficiency and performance when we make a backup and restore using a minimum time for RTO/RPO. Easy for configuring and managing security.

Pros

Backup
Restore
Storage

Cons

Simple
Easy
Graphical

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy to use and enable centralized management. It also provides reporting, compliance tracking, and auditing capabilities easy to monitor. When using for Disaster Recovery, using minimum space with a minimum of time. Many agencies are satisfied with the ability to perform backup and restore so it will meet RPO/RTO for certain agencies.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Cisco HyperFlex Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We using Cisco HyperFlex to simplify our data centers.

Pros

So when we need a server for our operation, it just only take less than 30 minutes to build the server to support our business application.

Cons

So far it's good.

Likelihood to Recommend

It most appropriate for our enterprise, like our brewery business.

Samrang Sieng

Head of IT in Information Technology at Vattanac Brewery Co., LTD. (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Hyperflex Ease of installation

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 9, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hyperflex is used to facilitate our back-end labs for production and test environments.

Pros

Ease of installation
Management
Scalability

Cons

on prem deployment method

Likelihood to Recommend

small to medium deployments for remote customers that needs a highly available, and remote managed solution.

richard archer

Systems Engineer in Engineering at Philips Healthcare Informatics (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

HyperFlex Can be a solid All in One Virtualization Product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 8, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were looking to replace older virtual servers and needed a new approach to handling our data. We are using HyperFlex as our primary UC data center environment. The scalability and ease use of management with Insight allows ease of use with managing VMs and Management of resources across the platform.

Pros

Resource Management
Storage visibility
Redundancy
Dedublication

Cons

Simplify Implementation
More Detailed Day 2 documentation for adding addition vNics
HyperFlex vs HyperFlex Edge clearer documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have an older environment and are looking for an all in one storage/network/vm solution you cannot go wrong with this product. Lets you scale to your needs and add on for future growth. If your needs are more to vSAN needs you will find limitations in this product. I found for a small IT work force, the units, after gathering requirements, were quick and easy to stand up.

Mathew Lang

Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Mary Washington (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

HyperFlex pros and cons

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

hosting all application in our customers DCs

Pros

easy to use
efficient and fast
good integration with the rest of the Cisco ecosystem

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

mainlny HX + IBM FlashSystem (viia FC where there are NTP and DNS and some VMs with huge amount of not used frequently data) where we host VMs with traditional applications and control plane for Kubernetes/OpenShift.

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Marcin Ślęczek

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) at networkers.pl (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

1 year of experience

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Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Running a testenviroment in it, all in one system

Pros

allways on
all in one
can do updates and repairs without the user recorgnize it

Cons

faster deploy
more often updates
faster updates

Likelihood to Recommend

building fast and big testenviroments
takes a little to learn to top to bottom

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Cisco HyperFlex - A powerhouse of a platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 6, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've deployed HyperFlex to provide compute and storage resources in remote sites and small data centers. It provided a solid platform that was both cost-effective and scalable. This allowed us to move some services closer to users, improving their performance. It was also easy to deploy and manage.

Pros

Scalable
Easy to use.
Performance

Cons

If anything, AMD processor support.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

Simplify our hybrid operations.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 27, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Hyperflex is one of our favorite tools, which we are using to simplify our hybrid operations and enhance the performance of many other critical applications. We use it for a converged infrastructure system that integrates computing, networking, and storage resources to improve the efficiency of the organization and allow for centralized control that saves a lot of time and resources because no other software is a complete solution like that.

Pros

Flash
Cloud-Enabled.
Scale-Out.
Software-Defined.

Cons

Power of the cluster,
Multi Cloud services.
Support multiple hypervisors

Likelihood to Recommend

It is the complete package that supports integration, storage resources, and networking in one place, so it saves cost and time to manage different resources and also has a user-friendly interface so that our employees use it easily and we don't need to hire an IT expert for the training process.

Verified User

Professional in Corporate (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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