Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs HPE Hyper Converged comparison

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97% willing to recommend

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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

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HPE Hyper Converged

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Nuno Mendes

IT Manager - Resp.Department at Parvalorem

High performance solution that makes it easy to efficiently manage VM resources

In our case as a credit recovery company working with the state, our infrastructure is fixed and stable as we don't have the same need for growth as other types of companies. That said, one of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application. Since we as a company will only be operating for perhaps the next ten years, when our HyperFlex solution comes to its end-of-life in 2024 our next step will likely not be with HyperFlex or any other solution from Cisco. Instead, from a financial point of view, we will likely turn toward a cloud solution because, that way, we won't have to spend so much money on physical infrastructure. We are, after all, only a small company and HyperFlex can be very expensive for other companies of our size, whether in Portugal or elsewhere like the United States. One other area for improvement is in regard to HyperFlex's integration with VMware. HyperFlex integrates with a specific version of VMware in such a way that HyperFlex doesn't always resolve security issues with VMware at the same pace as what you see in native implementations of VMware. This has happened in one or two situations in the past. On the other hand, the integration is otherwise adequate, especially in terms of availability and virtualization features (such as being able to split up each of our four hosts within VMware).

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Amir Azmy

HPE Account Manager at Ingram Micro company

A stable and useful product that enables organizations to use any software or database

My data is not big enough to scale up, so I do not need scalability. HPE Hyper Converged is a stable and useful product. If we add more hard disks, we will need a larger power supply to run them. Overall, I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."

"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."

"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."

"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."

"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."

"It saves space for data centers, which is good."

"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."

"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."

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"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."

"The most beneficial feature is the life cycle management."

"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."

"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."

"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."

"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."

"The solution has good backup resolution updates."

"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."

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Cons

"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."

"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."

"We would like to move off the GUI."

"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."

"Stability is really poor, especially the storage stability. We lost data. There were disruptions of clusters and that's one big pain point of the solution. It's not stable enough, the documentation is not good, there's not much documentation available. For every call we need a tech engineer."

"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."

"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."

"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."

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"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."

"The product must provide more storage capability."

"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."

"This solution is very costly."

"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."

"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."

"Its technical support services could be faster."

"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no additional licensing cost other than the cost for each part."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a bit pricier compared to other brands in the market...There is a need to make additional payments towards the maintenance and support of the solution."

"We are on an annual subscription and the price is fair."

"Cisco is quite expensive, but not in the initial first buy."

"There is a recurring cost for the VMware license and the HyperFlex licenses."

"Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is expensive. It's a standard license, and we pay for it yearly. I think we pay about 700."

"The pricing is a bit expensive."

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"If I'm comparing with Dell, HPE Hyper Converged is definitely cheaper in my experience."

"I would rate the price at seven out of ten. There are no additional licensing fees, but it would be cheaper to go with a dHCI solution."

"The entire solution is packaged with all licenses and support."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"The price per value compared to other solutions, like Nutanix and SimpliVity. (We made the deal before approval of HPE SimpliVity deal)."

"It is an expensive solution, however. If they could adjust the pricing, that would be helpful."

"The product's pricing is very competitive because HPE provides a buyback policy to users...Users can make either monthly or yearly payments towards the licensing cause of the solution."

"It could be cheaper, everything could be cheaper."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

26%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

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How does VxRail compare with Cisco HyperFlex HX Series?

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What do you like most about Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series?

It's easy to get the tool started.

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What do you like most about HPE Hyper Converged?

The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Hyper Converged?

The pricing is competitive. Initially, I misunderstood and rated it as higher, but on a scale of one to ten where one is cheap, I would rate it as a four.

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What needs improvement with HPE Hyper Converged?

I haven't had issues personally. I've heard from other people that maybe there could be some improvements around technical support.

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform is a purpose-built, high-performance, scale-out file system with a wide array of enterprise-class data management services. The data platform’s innovations redefine distributed storage technology, giving you complete hyper-convergence with enterprise storage features:

Enterprise-class data management
Continuous data optimization
Securely encrypted storage
Dynamic data placement
Clusterwide parallel data distribution
Linear and incremental scaling
API-based data platform architecture
A simplified approach

HPE Hyper Converged solutions combine intuitive software with the reliability of a world class platform to deliver cloud-like simplicity to your business.

Now, IT can become an internal service provider to end-users by quickly delivering the resources they need for application development and consumption. With HPE Hyper Converged systems companies can operate with cloud efficiency to simplify IT operations with one comprehensive control panel to deploy, monitor, analyze and update – with a single generalist; consume with cloud flexibility to deliver a cloud-like experience, with multi-tenant workspaces that eliminate stranded resources and flexes on demand; and deploy at cloud speed to empower developers and lines-of-business with a self-service portal that can instantly compose and recompose VMs in minutes. Built-in enterprise grade features, such as performance and resiliency enable HPE Hyper Converged systems to easily handle a wide variety of virtualized workloads, including general purpose virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and cloud.

Sample Customers

BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Ready Pac Foods, Bryant University, Bellevue Group, KPIT Technologies, City Harvest

North Lindsey College, FireWhat?, HudsonAlpha

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