Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series pros and cons

With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts.

The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset.

We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity.

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

The solution is stable.

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

The solution scales extremely well.

Support is very responsive.

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.

Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run.

Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server.

They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands.

The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date.

With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down.

The initial setup can be a bit complex.

We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited.

The initial setup can be complex.

The initial setup can be complex.