Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series pros and cons

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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series Pros review quotes

IT Manager - Resp.Department at Parvalorem

Dec 1, 2022

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.

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OJ

Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jan 30, 2019

The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space.

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IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Jun 8, 2021

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

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MatsHagberg Olsson

Enterprise System Architect at SAAB Group

Mar 5, 2019

The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view.

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MZ

Datacenter TeamLeader at Crystal Neworks Egypt

Dec 24, 2021

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.

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DA

Manager, Open Systems Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 19, 2019

It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected.

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IT Enterprise System Administrator at Misr Technology Services

Nov 21, 2022

The initial setup is very straightforward.

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Karuna Madhu Devandla

General Manager of IT at Magma Fincorp Ltd.

Feb 20, 2019

There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it.

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Shahriar Rahman

Deputy Manager at PacECloud

Sep 5, 2022

The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity.

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MM

Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr

May 18, 2021

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

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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series Cons review quotes

IT Manager - Resp.Department at Parvalorem

Dec 1, 2022

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.

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OJ

Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jan 30, 2019

I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass.

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IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Jun 8, 2021

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.

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Datacenter TeamLeader at Crystal Neworks Egypt

Dec 24, 2021

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.

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Manager, Open Systems Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 19, 2019

If we could have just a single pane of glass, where everything can be managed through that one app, rather than have multiple apps, it would be great.

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IT Enterprise System Administrator at Misr Technology Services

Nov 21, 2022

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

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Karuna Madhu Devandla

General Manager of IT at Magma Fincorp Ltd.

Feb 20, 2019

It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs.

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Shahriar Rahman

Deputy Manager at PacECloud

Sep 5, 2022

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.

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MM

Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr

May 18, 2021

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

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RR

Senior Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 19, 2019

We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users.

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