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

"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."

"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."

"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."

"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."

"By configuring networks, we are saving power."

"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."

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

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

"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."

"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."

"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."

"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."

"The most valuable feature is the convergence."

"Stability is one of the things we absolutely have to have, because if the HCI is down, our assembly lines are down, and that could potentially lead to our customer being down. If our customer is down, that's $10,000 a minute; and any time the assembly line is down, that could potentially lead to overtime. We don't get to charge one and a half times for something we billed just because you happened to build it on overtime. Any technology we bring in, has to be built for what I call "three in the morning." It can't be built for whenever everybody's in the plant, everybody can watch it, and everybody can babysit. It has to be built for three a.m. when you've got a skeletal staff there, and you just have to know that it's just running. As I stand here, right now, I don't have to check my phone, I don't have to check my email. I know it's running. Period"

"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."

"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."

"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."

"The initial setup can be complex."

"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."

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

"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."

"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."

"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."

"The solution's price could be affordable."

"I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines."

"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."

"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."

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

"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."

"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."

"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."

"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."

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

"The licensing is perpetual and the only thing that you may need to pay for on a monthly basis is if you're going to use their cloud-based management features."

"There is a recurring cost for the VMware license and the HyperFlex licenses."

"Cisco is quite expensive, but not in the initial first buy."

"If you don't look at the costs of the systems, the scalability is quite good."

"I would like the pricing to be cheaper."

"We have a yearly license."

"They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive.""

"Where we lost nearly 75 percent of our infrastructure due to a malicious attack and were able to recover two and a half hours into it due to the integration, it saved us and all of our customers. Because we were able to recover so fast from the attack, the solution paid for itself right there."

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

"Its price is comparable to the competitors in the market."

"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."

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

"This solution saved our organization time (35 percent) and money. We have a hefty group of developers, and if you multiply that by 30 to 35 percent, that is quite a bit of money."