Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs HPE StoreVirtual comparison

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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

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HPE StoreVirtual

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Software Defined Storage (SDS) (21st)

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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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Vebjorn Nergaard

Senior IT Engineer at Guard Automation AS

Reliable with helpful support and good replication

The setup is okay, however, it comes with a moderate amount of difficulty. If you are new to the product, it is difficult. You do get used to the process over time and it gets easier. A company just needs one person to maintain the solution as it just runs. You don't need any support staff. It's very, very hands-off except when you do updates. The product is living its own life.

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Pros

"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."

"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."

"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."

"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."

"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."

"I find the usability very valuable."

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

"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."

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"A company can scale it easily."

"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."

"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."

"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."

"A very flexible solution."

"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."

"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."

"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."

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Cons

"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."

"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."

"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."

"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."

"We would like to move off the GUI."

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

"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."

"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"

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"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."

"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."

"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."

"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."

"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."

"It is a costly solution."

"User interface could be improved."

"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Comparable solutions with switches, storage, and services are cheaper than HyperFlex. It should be cheaper."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is expensive. It's a standard license, and we pay for it yearly. I think we pay about 700."

"The pricing is a bit expensive."

"The cost is expensive, but there is a chance to save money in the future."

"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.""

"Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this."

"The price is a bit too high."

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"The prices are OK, so we don't have much difficulty selling HPE in Brazil."

"For our organization, I believe the cost is 16,000 Euros for a three-year license. It costs a bit more to do the maintenance on our servers as well. It's also on an HP ProLiant server and an organization will need to do the maintenance there also. I believe the price for that is around 2000 Euros a year."

"Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen."

"It costs less than $10,000 for one machine. If it costs more than 15% higher than this, then the customer may change to another solution."

"One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included."

"If you buy a five-year license, not only does the technical support expire after five years, but you also lose the ability to change and expand the VSA, and the systems won't go down."

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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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HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.

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