Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

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Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

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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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Massimiliano Bartolozzi

Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.

Crashed continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support - NETAPP FIXED the problems in 2022

Their after-sales support, SLA, and third-parties availability should be improved. NetApp's support is very difficult to engage. We have an SLA of onsite support within 24 hours. but they don't respect the SLA. Its stability was very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crashes. In 2022, NetApp Italy, driven by the country manager Davide Marini, fixed all our issues and added additional computation power for free. This is a great example of customer care. They could have done it right the first time of course, but admitting the errors and putting in place such a remediation plan has been a very professional behavior.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."

"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."

"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."

"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."

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

"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."

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"We like SnapMirror and we've been using it for many years. We also like the object storage tools, as well as cloud sync for customers wanting to integrate between the cloud and local."

"We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."

"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."

"Everything we've moved over runs two times faster and in some cases, a lot faster, far more than twice, which our users noticed."

"When it comes to DevOps, HCI has saved our organization time and money, especially with the number of resources that we have cut down."

"It's simple, flexible, powerful; we've been able to move most of our workload to it and we've seen increased performance across the board."

"It has automated a lot of workloads. It has automated us from ticketing a large number to a very small number."

"The NetApp Deployment Engine that comes with it makes the actual deployment and usage very easy. That's our primary focus and it's hyper-converged. That's something that we want to use as well."

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Cons

"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."

"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."

"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."

"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."

"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."

"Managing this solution is complex and should be improved."

"Here in Brazil, our point of view about the cost to implement or buy this kind of solution is that it is very expensive."

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"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."

"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."

"We went with a different solution and having run that for a while, I would say that there is a lot more than they could do to make it more streamlined."

"The price of the solution is okay but could improve."

"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."

"I would like to see the implementation process improved."

"In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."

"Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"HyperFlex is a little pricey."

"When we negotiated with Cisco for the HyperFlex solution, they gave us a good price because they wanted to break into the market in Portugal for the first time. However, in general, I think it's a very expensive solution. It's a huge amount of money to acquire this kind of infrastructure."

"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."

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

"Here in Brazil... it is very expensive. It's very hard for almost all companies to buy even the small version of this solution."

"There is a license required to use this solution."

"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 would not have invested if we didn't feel the return was there for our customers."

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"Its price is aligned with the market. In addition to the standard licensing fees, there is an integrator cost."

"Licenses run on a yearly basis, and there aren't any additional fees other than the standard licensing fee."

"The price of the solution is okay but could improve."

"All the licenses are included when you buy the program."

"There are the overall infrastructure costs. Even though the initial costing was higher, we calculated for year-to-year for five years. That brought us into a position where we decided, we have to go for HCI rather than having distributor systems."

"This solution reduced our maintenance costs. We were going to have to pay one to two million dollars to put in compute nodes. We are avoiding those costs."

"The licensing fees are renewed annually."

"You still have to pay for the licensing for VMware and Red Hat licenses separately. It's not all inclusive at this point."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Marketing Services Firm

Construction Company

21%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	24
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	57

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	19

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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

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NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots.

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