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

Cisco and NetApp are both solutions in the HCI category. Additionally, 89% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of NetApp users who would recommend it.
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    Categories and Ranking

    Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [...
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    6.7
    Number of Reviews
    90
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
    NetApp HCI [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    5.6
    Number of Reviews
    32
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
     

    Featured Reviews

    Nuno Mendes - PeerSpot reviewer
    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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    Crashed continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support - NETAPP FIXED the problems in 2022
    Their after-sales support, SLA, and third-parties availability should be improved. NetApp's support is very difficult to engage. We have an SLA of onsite support within 24 hours. but they don't respect the SLA. Its stability was very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crashes. In 2022, NetApp Italy, driven by the country manager Davide Marini, fixed all our issues and added additional computation power for free. This is a great example of customer care. They could have done it right the first time of course, but admitting the errors and putting in place such a remediation plan has been a very professional behavior.
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    Pros

    "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."
    "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."
    "Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
    "It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
    "It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
    "Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
    "Support is very responsive."
    "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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    "We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."
    "The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
    "The most valuables features of it are the deduplication and the compaction because the ratios are much better than what we normally get on our FAS storage."
    "The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path."
    "It has automated a lot of workloads. It has automated us from ticketing a large number to a very small number."
    "It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
    "It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
    "HCI has helped with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds for the last year. It's faster and more reliable with minimal downtime, as it doesn't require any maintenance."
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    Cons

    "There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
    "Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
    "We would like to move off the GUI."
    "Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
    "Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
    "The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
    "The solution's price could be affordable."
    "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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    "I'm not a fan of how they don't log you out properly from some of their web tools for management."
    "I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
    "At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
    "In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."
    "There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
    "It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
    "HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."
    "The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
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    Pricing and Cost Advice

    "We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet."
    "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."
    "If you don't look at the costs of the systems, the scalability is quite good."
    "HyperFlex is a little pricey."
    "The product is expensive. Other solutions are cheaper."
    "The price is a bit high. It could be better, but the product is worth the cost."
    "We are on an annual subscription and the price is fair."
    "For customers in the private sector, this product can have a very high return on investment."
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    "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."
    "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."
    "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."
    "Its price is comparable to the competitors in the market."
    "Licenses run on a yearly basis, and there aren't any additional fees other than the standard licensing fee."
    "The price of the solution is okay but could improve."
    "Its pricing is lower than our previous solution."
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    Top Industries

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    Computer Software Company
    23%
    Financial Services Firm
    9%
    Government
    8%
    Manufacturing Company
    7%
    Financial Services Firm
    18%
    Real Estate/Law Firm
    18%
    Computer Software Company
    11%
    Manufacturing Company
    9%
     

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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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    NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots.

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