Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs Ivanti Neurons for RBVM comparison

"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."

"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."

"By configuring networks, we are saving power."

"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."

"The solution can scale up and out."

"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."

"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."

"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."

"Most of the features are similar to what other tools have, but the UIs are quite user friendly. A beginner could use it."

"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."

"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."

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

"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."

"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."

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

"It needs more detailed documentation."

"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."

"I would also like to see more integrations, plugins, and user-friendly automation, similar to the multiple integration scripts that Rapid7 has."

"Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have."

"One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month."

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

"Its price is high. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Nutanix or VMware are cheaper products, and they provide almost the same functionality. Its price is a big road blocker when we are working with an end customer, and Nutanix and VMware are in competition. If they can reduce its price, it is actually a better choice for customers."

"Its price is rather fair when compared with other solutions like VxRail, vSAN, and HPE SimpliVity. We got a fair amount of discount from Cisco for Cisco HyperFlex. It is cost-effective. We have renewed storage till next year, and we have already paid the vendor. When we talk about HyperFlex or any HCI solution, storage is the part where we can reduce a lot of costs. At the current moment, we are already using NetApp storage, which did not allow us to go for a full Cisco HyperFlex setup. We are planning to go to a larger scale next year. Then we will be able to see how cost-effective it really is for us."

"I would like a clearer licensing model. It should explain a bit more what you receive if you buy the more expensive license rather than the standard one."

"I would like the pricing to be cheaper."

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