It’s a part of a public sector bid we're preparing. The HyperFlex platform has been discontinued. It's mainly used for enterprise-grade applications like databases, CRP systems, and typical enterprise workloads.
We are a state-affiliated financial company that performs credit recovery from bad banking and we bought four Cisco HyperFlex HX hosts five years ago which came as all-in-one solutions with processor, memory, and disk. These hosts are all situated on-premises. Within the next ten years, when all credits have been recovered, our mission will end. Unfortunately, our current edition of HyperFlex will end sooner than that, because it will be end-of-life in 2024.
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We use this solution as Active-Active and to host some of our applications. Compared to Nutanix, it is not as good. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is not a matured HCI solution. If something goes wrong with Nutanix, we use Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, so we at least have half of our systems running. It is helpful as a backup solution.
We are one of the biggest cloud providers in Bangladesh, so we use this service and we are relaying the service to the end customer. We have many multinational companies, ODSMs providers, and banks as our customers, so it's pretty good, knowing that we have a kind of highly-loaded workload.
We needed a complete solution with a software-defined data center. We use Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, VMware, and Application Centric Infrastructure(ACI) with micro-segmentation and application latency.
Our primary use case is for stretched cluster uses when the customer has multiple data centers and he won't achieve the highest level of availability. He can stretch the workload between different data centers giving him more availability when one of these data centers fails and the workload can be migrated and replicated to the other data centers. From an infrastructure level you achieve the highest availability. I am talking about 100% availability from a storage perspective.
Senior Account Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
MSP
2021-12-07T04:13:48Z
Dec 7, 2021
We deploy these for our customers, we're in the reseller space. Use cases are typically around data center revolutions, consolidations in virtualization density, and being able to scale both up and out.
Team Lead - ITIS at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2021-10-05T14:08:00Z
Oct 5, 2021
We have hosted a few use cases. Windows developed an application that we hosted in the production environment and all SQL database servers. After that, we used HyperFlex HCI to host DNS and DCP servers as well as various IT-related production servers.
HyperFlex is a hyper-converged infrastructure system that is a cluster of servers that provide compute and storage at the same time. Most other networking systems provide either computation separately from storage and networking. However, HyperFlex is a combined system that provides compute, networking, and storage in the same solution. That is, it gives you a single point of management for everything instead of separately for different components.
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr
Real User
2021-05-13T19:05:05Z
May 13, 2021
We are a solution provider and Cisco HyperFlex is one of the products that we propose to our customers. This product is used for hyper-convergence in IT transformation and can be used for very heavy workloads such as VDIs or HAP HANA.
Infrastructure Integration Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-02-18T06:09:29Z
Feb 18, 2021
Our primary goal is to have a solution that enables us to have 100% uptime between two sites. That's why we're using HyperFlex. It has a very critical application. We are a government organization with around 15,000 users although that can go up to 25,000 in peak times. I'm an infrastructure integration analyst.
Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2020-12-21T13:42:35Z
Dec 21, 2020
A client typically uses the solution for the VDI critical application and for the containerization as well. It's a critical application and he X location and the hybrid or multi cloud.
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology
Real User
2020-12-07T12:17:00Z
Dec 7, 2020
Typically we use this Cisco HyperFlex cluster as our local server virtualization platform. We have all our services running in this cluster. In other words, we could say this is our local data center for all our business systems as well the core components of our IT infrastructure. At this moment, we haven't upgraded to the latest version although Cisco has been encouraging us to upgrade, since they recently published a new version. We will schedule this change maybe next month.
Data Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-11-17T20:36:00Z
Nov 17, 2020
We have a remote site. We are developing this site so that we can locally access the VMware environment with the least network bandwidth. We have deployed the ESXi host virtual edition.
Network Analyst at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:37:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We normally use a UCS, a uniform communication service, I'm still learning how HyperFlex works. We are evaluating it for use in the intermediate to deep future.
Our primary use case of Cisco HyperFlex HX is for data centers. It performs well. The solution helps us simplify operations through minimal maintenance and ease of patching. We did the upgrade as part of the lifecycle when the previous equipment became end-of-life. It was time for the investment. At the same time, we were building out new data centers.
Manager, Open Systems Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We are using this solution for our VDI. This is used to deliver our EMR and other medical and clinical applications to our residents and providers throughout the medical center.
CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
My job is to change the technical language to business language. We need to increase efficiency and effectiveness, decrease the cost and decrease administrative issues. We are increasing the population inside the company, increasing the staff. People in the management of the company are trying to decrease the cost expenses and increase efficiency. In this case, centralization brings a lot of advantages. We have one person who works on everything and gathers everything together.
Our primary use case for the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the hosting of VMs. We were just using standard ESX clusters on UCS flights. Instead, they chose HyperFlex to see if it could replace that solution. This is just your standard ESX on blade server type of deployment.
Manger Assistant in Storage at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We use Cisco HyperFlex for two reasons: * At one data center, it's used as our primary virtualization and storage platform. * At our other data center, it's used for VDI.
Our primary use case for HyperFlex is for connecting the Meraki VPN. We're working with the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila. We put the VPN through HyperFlex.
The primary use case is to deploy all our production and documents. We have deployed Hyper-V on top of HyperFlex and the majority of our operation is on Hyper-V. Major workloads are our e-commerce website and applications that are hosted on it. We have deployed database servers and document management systems and a couple of app and web servers.
I'm a solution architect and I use it to help my clients to achieve better performance in VDI solutions, in clusters, in database consolidation. The solution addresses these kinds of scenarios.
The primary use was for a private cloud for the company. I used it for an ERP system and several other applications that were specialized for the company.
We use it in junction with unified communication solutions. It provides great flexibility for our customers to expand the solution. Also, the ease of management is why they use HyperFlex.
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2019-01-30T13:14:00Z
Jan 30, 2019
The primary use case is for people who are tired of messing around with old school solutions, like SANs and NASs, and want to improve the storage side of things in the data center.
We have been using Cisco machines when it comes to the HX-Series product line (or category) in our organization. We are quite satisfied with the product because we primarily deal with Cisco when it comes to the compute and network parts.
Our primary use case is virtualization on VMware. We have some virtual machines, which need a lot of computing power, and HyperFlex seems to be a good solution.
Data Center Supervisor at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-01-30T13:14:00Z
Jan 30, 2019
We are using this product right now for our virtual environment. As the product develops, we are looking forward to utilizing the product on the cloud.
Enterprise Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-01-29T17:16:00Z
Jan 29, 2019
Our use case would be deployable mobile headquarters, headquarters on the move, where we can quickly deploy to our small user community and quickly create a mobile data center. This includes using business advantage communications.
IT Infrastructure Manager at Azersun Holding Group
Real User
2019-01-29T17:16:00Z
Jan 29, 2019
We use it in our production environment for some tasks, such as availability, easy scalability, easy setup, and independence from too many solutions put together. We use FlexPod as another one for mutualized infrastructure.
Solution Consultant IBM Storage/Lenovo/Softlayer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2018-12-19T10:49:00Z
Dec 19, 2018
Cisco is key for switching abilities. The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions, such as the storage or server environment, is quite good and well-developed.
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It’s a part of a public sector bid we're preparing. The HyperFlex platform has been discontinued. It's mainly used for enterprise-grade applications like databases, CRP systems, and typical enterprise workloads.
We use the solution to combine and migrate regular servers to a hyper-converged infrastructure.
The primary use case is for non-production purposes like development, testing, etc.
We don't use the solution for security. It's for converged infrastructure. We're a reseller and implement it for our clients.
We are a state-affiliated financial company that performs credit recovery from bad banking and we bought four Cisco HyperFlex HX hosts five years ago which came as all-in-one solutions with processor, memory, and disk. These hosts are all situated on-premises. Within the next ten years, when all credits have been recovered, our mission will end. Unfortunately, our current edition of HyperFlex will end sooner than that, because it will be end-of-life in 2024.
We primarily use the solution for our customers.
We use this solution as Active-Active and to host some of our applications. Compared to Nutanix, it is not as good. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is not a matured HCI solution. If something goes wrong with Nutanix, we use Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, so we at least have half of our systems running. It is helpful as a backup solution.
We are using this product for our on-premises terminal operating system.
Our primary use case of HyperFlex is for storage. We are customers of Cisco.
The primary use case is for backup virtualization, active directory servers, and backup file servers. We are integrators of HyperFlex.
We are consultants, and we set up this product for our customers.
We are one of the biggest cloud providers in Bangladesh, so we use this service and we are relaying the service to the end customer. We have many multinational companies, ODSMs providers, and banks as our customers, so it's pretty good, knowing that we have a kind of highly-loaded workload.
We deployed HyperFlex for our website services, as well as we put our F5 on it. Basically, we use it for some applications, some better features.
We needed a complete solution with a software-defined data center. We use Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, VMware, and Application Centric Infrastructure(ACI) with micro-segmentation and application latency.
We are partners and integrators of HyperFlex and I am a company deputy director of IT.
I use HyperFlex for high-performance infrastructure.
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is essential to our vSAN solution; it's integrated.
Our primary use case is for stretched cluster uses when the customer has multiple data centers and he won't achieve the highest level of availability. He can stretch the workload between different data centers giving him more availability when one of these data centers fails and the workload can be migrated and replicated to the other data centers. From an infrastructure level you achieve the highest availability. I am talking about 100% availability from a storage perspective.
We deploy these for our customers, we're in the reseller space. Use cases are typically around data center revolutions, consolidations in virtualization density, and being able to scale both up and out.
We have hosted a few use cases. Windows developed an application that we hosted in the production environment and all SQL database servers. After that, we used HyperFlex HCI to host DNS and DCP servers as well as various IT-related production servers.
We are implementing the solution for Hyper-converged systems.
HyperFlex is a hyper-converged infrastructure system that is a cluster of servers that provide compute and storage at the same time. Most other networking systems provide either computation separately from storage and networking. However, HyperFlex is a combined system that provides compute, networking, and storage in the same solution. That is, it gives you a single point of management for everything instead of separately for different components.
We are a solution provider and Cisco HyperFlex is one of the products that we propose to our customers. This product is used for hyper-convergence in IT transformation and can be used for very heavy workloads such as VDIs or HAP HANA.
I have many clients using this solution for a number of reasons, such as unified communications and collaboration.
We use the solution as a host environment for applications and also for VDI.
Our primary goal is to have a solution that enables us to have 100% uptime between two sites. That's why we're using HyperFlex. It has a very critical application. We are a government organization with around 15,000 users although that can go up to 25,000 in peak times. I'm an infrastructure integration analyst.
A client typically uses the solution for the VDI critical application and for the containerization as well. It's a critical application and he X location and the hybrid or multi cloud.
Typically we use this Cisco HyperFlex cluster as our local server virtualization platform. We have all our services running in this cluster. In other words, we could say this is our local data center for all our business systems as well the core components of our IT infrastructure. At this moment, we haven't upgraded to the latest version although Cisco has been encouraging us to upgrade, since they recently published a new version. We will schedule this change maybe next month.
We have a remote site. We are developing this site so that we can locally access the VMware environment with the least network bandwidth. We have deployed the ESXi host virtual edition.
We normally use a UCS, a uniform communication service, I'm still learning how HyperFlex works. We are evaluating it for use in the intermediate to deep future.
Our primary use case of this solution is for VDI, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, for our community college.
Our primary use case of Cisco HyperFlex HX is for data centers. It performs well. The solution helps us simplify operations through minimal maintenance and ease of patching. We did the upgrade as part of the lifecycle when the previous equipment became end-of-life. It was time for the investment. At the same time, we were building out new data centers.
We are using this solution for our VDI. This is used to deliver our EMR and other medical and clinical applications to our residents and providers throughout the medical center.
Our primary use for this solution is remote office environments.
The primary use we have for this product is to act as a server and for storage.
My job is to change the technical language to business language. We need to increase efficiency and effectiveness, decrease the cost and decrease administrative issues. We are increasing the population inside the company, increasing the staff. People in the management of the company are trying to decrease the cost expenses and increase efficiency. In this case, centralization brings a lot of advantages. We have one person who works on everything and gathers everything together.
This solution is used for branch office servers.
Our primary use case for the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the hosting of VMs. We were just using standard ESX clusters on UCS flights. Instead, they chose HyperFlex to see if it could replace that solution. This is just your standard ESX on blade server type of deployment.
Our primary use case for the product is for the data center. We are hosting all of the servers and building infrastructure.
We use Cisco HyperFlex for two reasons: * At one data center, it's used as our primary virtualization and storage platform. * At our other data center, it's used for VDI.
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is storage that is integrated with the stack as a standalone mobile unit. There is less infrastructure required.
We use this solution for our Call Monitor and for Contact Center Express.
Our primary use case for HyperFlex is for connecting the Meraki VPN. We're working with the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila. We put the VPN through HyperFlex.
Our primary use of the Cisco HyperFlex HX solution is to run virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Our primary use case for Cisco HyperFlex HX is internal. We use it for internal hyper-converged. I post VMs for internal use and for customers.
We use the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series primarily for VDI environments.
* Customer POC * Client VMware environment testing.
Our use case was to set up a new VDI farm.
The primary use case is to deploy all our production and documents. We have deployed Hyper-V on top of HyperFlex and the majority of our operation is on Hyper-V. Major workloads are our e-commerce website and applications that are hosted on it. We have deployed database servers and document management systems and a couple of app and web servers.
I'm a solution architect and I use it to help my clients to achieve better performance in VDI solutions, in clusters, in database consolidation. The solution addresses these kinds of scenarios.
We use it as an application server and for storage.
The primary use was for a private cloud for the company. I used it for an ERP system and several other applications that were specialized for the company.
We use this solution for clients who has issues with their infrastructure.
Our primary use case is for the distributed computing system in several data centers.
The primary use case is VDI and virtualization. We are testing it for VDI. For VDI, HyperFlex has been pretty useful.
We use this solution for virtualization.
The primary use case is that we are coming from a legacy data storage network and need more flexibility in both storage and network consumption.
We use it in junction with unified communication solutions. It provides great flexibility for our customers to expand the solution. Also, the ease of management is why they use HyperFlex.
We use it mainly in a virtualization environment with several VMs. We use it with VMware, not Hyper-V.
The primary use case is for people who are tired of messing around with old school solutions, like SANs and NASs, and want to improve the storage side of things in the data center.
We are using HyperFlex for heavy workloads and virtual machines which are on a separate network.
Our primary use case of this solution is for data storage for the network.
We have been using Cisco machines when it comes to the HX-Series product line (or category) in our organization. We are quite satisfied with the product because we primarily deal with Cisco when it comes to the compute and network parts.
Our primary use case is virtualization on VMware. We have some virtual machines, which need a lot of computing power, and HyperFlex seems to be a good solution.
We use this solution for many banks in Egypt.
We have been using this product for a while. We wanted to use our current equipment and have been very excited with the results of our projects.
We are using this product right now for our virtual environment. As the product develops, we are looking forward to utilizing the product on the cloud.
This is brand new technology for us. We are using the ACI infrastructure in our company for the development of the HyperFlex servers.
Our primary use case is to reduce our hardware storage and to make it virtual so we use vSAN and HyperFlex.
Our primary use case of this solution is for data center virtualization.
We use it on our customer-facing network management and customer portals. It is run between two resilient data centers and runs very well.
Our primary use case is for desktop infrastructure.
Our use case would be deployable mobile headquarters, headquarters on the move, where we can quickly deploy to our small user community and quickly create a mobile data center. This includes using business advantage communications.
It is to migrate our customer's solutions to a hyper-converged solution. This is the primary use case.
We use it in our production environment for some tasks, such as availability, easy scalability, easy setup, and independence from too many solutions put together. We use FlexPod as another one for mutualized infrastructure.
The primary use case is for our customer who was moving from classical storage and computing to the new HyperFlex system.
Cisco is key for switching abilities. The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions, such as the storage or server environment, is quite good and well-developed.
It is an acceptable storage solution.
Manufacturing and logistics software controls, ERP and document management servers, and database production and development servers.
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