Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series Primary Use Case
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Hoang Quan Nguyen
Infrastructure Integration Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
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.
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Dan Abamonte
Manager, Open Systems Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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.
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KalpeshDave
Assistant VP, Information Technology at SBICAP Securities Ltd.
The primary use case is for non-production purposes like development, testing, etc.
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series
April 2024
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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 are using this product for our on-premises terminal operating system.
View full review »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.
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reviewer1221432
Manager, Core Engineering at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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Sotiris Tomopoulos
Presales Solutions Architect at Intracom Telecom
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.
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Eric Momo
Software Developer at FNB South Africa
Our primary use case of HyperFlex is for storage. We are customers of Cisco.
View full review »We are partners and integrators of HyperFlex and I am a company Deputy Operative Director of IT.
View full review »Our workload is very heavy. We always acquire support from the tech engineer from Cisco, and they are always there for assistance and provide us the necessary health and guidance. In our environment, we manage to patch our infrastructure regularly, and we don't want to miss any patches. This sometimes it requires a lot of effort, and sometimes the updates are not recommended, and we have to wait for the recommended version. The patch management can impact us in our scope. This helps us centralize everything to make things easier.
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John Mcgehee
Manager at Chevron
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.
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Chris Wall
Sr IT Manager at Aryzta AG
This solution is used for branch office servers.
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MangerAs3376
Manger Assistant in Storage at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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.
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MatsHagberg Olsson
Enterprise System Architect at SAAB Group
Our use case was to set up a new VDI farm.
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Esraa Abdallah
Pre-Sales Engineer at Raya Integration
We are consultants, and we set up this product for our customers.
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reviewer819990
Systems Admin at a university with 10,001+ employees
Our primary use of the Cisco HyperFlex HX solution is to run virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
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Doug Rains
Sr Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use for this solution is remote office environments.
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Poorna Chandra
Senior Consultant at Daimler AG
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.
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Shahriar Rahman
Deputy Manager at PacECloud
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.
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Abdelhadi El Ghanioui
Senior System Engineer at Intelcom
We are implementing the solution for Hyper-converged systems.
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Danny Reyes
Field Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series primarily for VDI environments.
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Zeray Assefa
Director of Network Operations at a government
The primary use we have for this product is to act as a server and for storage.
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Karuna Madhu Devandla
General Manager of IT at Magma Fincorp Ltd.
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.
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reviewer1045833
Senior Account Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
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.
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Brett Moore
Network Architect at City of Mesa
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.
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Alister Richmond
Technical Director at Ping Network Solutions
We use it on our customer-facing network management and customer portals. It is run between two resilient data centers and runs very well.
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reviewer1141047
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use the solution as a host environment for applications and also for VDI.
View full review »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.
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Brad Smith
Principle Architect at NTT Data India Enterprise Application Services Pri
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.
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DivMgr4312
Divisional Manager - Engineering at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it as an application server and for storage.
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ITInfrase578
IT Infrastructure Manager at Azersun Holding Group
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.
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SherifAbouelezz
CIO at Latif Group
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.
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Archie Tamayo
Common Tech at PCGLA
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.
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Lennis Garrido
Engineering Manager at OCP TECH
We use the solution to combine and migrate regular servers to a hyper-converged infrastructure.
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AthumanJuma
Data Center Engineer at Emerging Communications Limited
I use HyperFlex for high-performance infrastructure.
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Mohamed Zein
Datacenter TeamLeader at Crystal Neworks Egypt
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.
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MichaelZhang
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology
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.
View full review »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.
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Aws Al-Dabbagh
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
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.
View full review »We don't use the solution for security. It's for converged infrastructure.
We're a reseller and implement it for our clients.
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Ole Johan
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
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.
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reviewer1333923
Pre-Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We primarily use the solution for our customers.
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MinaMagdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr
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.
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NetworkE4e20
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution for our Call Monitor and for Contact Center Express.
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CIOece4
CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »We use this solution for clients who has issues with their infrastructure.
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Teste Botme
Manager at EagleBurgmann
Manufacturing and logistics software controls, ERP and document management servers, and database production and development servers.
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SeniorNeab15
Senior Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case of this solution is for VDI, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, for our community college.
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Farrukh Qadir
Sr. System Engineer at IBL-Unisys
- Customer POC
- Client VMware environment testing.
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Simon Van Raalte
System Administrator at Provinzial NordWest
We are using HyperFlex for heavy workloads and virtual machines which are on a separate network.
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Pantelis Rizos
CIO at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
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.
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user4583
Data Center Supervisor at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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reviewer1390341
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is essential to our vSAN solution; it's integrated.
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SeniorSy7f3e
Senior Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
Our primary use case for the product is for the data center. We are hosting all of the servers and building infrastructure.
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Enterpridf49
Enterprise Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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Florian Haake
Network Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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NetworkAeb59
Network Analyst at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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ITsys6af8
IT Systems Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is storage that is integrated with the stack as a standalone mobile unit. There is less infrastructure required.
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Mohamed Elolemy
Senior Presales Lead at Systems Engineering Of Egypt
We use this solution for many banks in Egypt.
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reviewer1461453
Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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.
Our primary use case of this solution is for data storage for the network.
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SeniorSy3f3b
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Our primary use case of this solution is for data center virtualization.
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Yasein Elalami
Network and Security Engineer at Italtel
The primary use case is for our customer who was moving from classical storage and computing to the new HyperFlex system.
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Fabio Vilches
System Engineer with 51-200 employees
It is an acceptable storage solution.
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reviewer1539879
Solution Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have many clients using this solution for a number of reasons, such as unified communications and collaboration.
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David Orozco
Consultant at Italtel
Our primary use case is for the distributed computing system in several data centers.
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ITSystemcd8e
IT System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use case is to reduce our hardware storage and to make it virtual so we use vSAN and HyperFlex.
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Florin Ramboiu
Product and Project Manager at Eta2u
The primary use case is VDI and virtualization. We are testing it for VDI. For VDI, HyperFlex has been pretty useful.
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RuudVan Donk
Solution Consultant IBM Storage/Lenovo/Softlayer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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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SrSolutic070
Sr Solution Architect at NetDesign
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.
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SeniorCod2b0
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use case is for desktop infrastructure.
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reviewer711501
Team Lead - ITIS at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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.
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SystemAd552c
System Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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Carlo Poggiarelli
Solution Architect at Teleconsys
It is to migrate our customer's solutions to a hyper-converged solution. This is the primary use case.
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DcCenter417d
Data Center Specialist at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
This is brand new technology for us. We are using the ACI infrastructure in our company for the development of the HyperFlex servers.
View full review »Supports Cisco Virtual Appliances for videotelephony control plane, network monitoring, and network management.
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reviewer1227132
System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is for backup virtualization, active directory servers, and backup file servers. We are integrators of HyperFlex.
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Solutionffa3
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use it mainly in a virtualization environment with several VMs.
We use it with VMware, not Hyper-V.
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Engineer66eb
Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use this solution for virtualization.
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.