Cisco MDS Series vs INFINIDAT InfiniBox comparison

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We performed a comparison between Cisco MDS Series and INFINIDAT InfiniBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The most valuable feature of the Cisco MDS Series is security.""The issues with these switches are extremely rare, and the whole product line is very predictable and stable.""SAN switches in Cisco MDS Series are a valuable feature of the solution for our company.""The product is easy to use.""The features I found most valuable are the ease of deployment, it's easy to upgrade, easy to configure and easy to administer. There is no need for vendor professional services which saves project cost. The usage of WebUI for all primary features like hostname, IP address, SNMP traps, zone sets, addition and deletion of zone members or zone sets, backup of switch DB is very simple.""The most valuable feature of the Cisco MDS Series is its reliability, support, and scalability.""The most valuable features of this solution are the devices, databases, and zoning."

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"This product has good performance.""Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."

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Cons
"Cisco MDS Series could improve by adding more gigahertz. However, they are doing this over time.""The licensing model could be less complicated.""The GUI client is Java-based and we know that Java is not secure, so everyone disables it.""Cisco MDS Series can improve by having API functionality for automation and programming.""The solution's management interface and GUI need improvement.""The product is very expensive.""It is quite a stable product. It should be shipped with the latest firmware to avoid download and upload schema at the beginning of the initial setup. There should also be the possibility of downgrading the firmware when required. WebUI needs DCNM instead a web-based GUI should be made available like Brocade san switch."

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"The response time for read requests can be improved.""InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's perpetual licensing and maintenance is a recurrent cost."
  • "The price of the Cisco MDS Series is high."
  • "Pricing cannot be considered an advantageous trait of the solution since it is expensive. I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
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  • "The license covers any feature and also, the future features are already included. It is as easy as a 1, 2 and 3."
  • "The best features come included without any additional cost."
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    Also Known As
    Cisco MDS 9100, Cisco MDS 9222i, Cisco MDS 9700
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    Overview

    Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches have met and often exceeded the demanding requirements for storage area networks for more than a decade. They offer a combination of performance, non-stop operations, and multiprotocol flexibility.

    InfiniBox, high performance enterprise data storage, eliminates performance, availability and scalability issues to accelerate critical business applications. Based upon a fully abstracted set of software driven storage functions layered on top of industry standard hardware, INFINIDAT delivers a fast, highly available, and easy-to-deploy storage system.

    Unmatched reliability and performance (99.99999% uptime) is delivered through an innovative self-healing architecture, high performance double-parity RAID, and comprehensive end-to-end data verification capability. In addition, an efficient data distribution architecture that uses all drives all the time, and a very large flash cache, deliver ultra-high performance with up to 1M IOPS, and over 12GB/s throughput along with our InfiniMetrics detailed performance monitoring.

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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government9%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization44%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business50%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise52%
    Large Enterprise37%

    Cisco MDS Series is ranked 1st in Enterprise SAN with 8 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. Cisco MDS Series is rated 9.0, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco MDS Series writes "Simple deployment, reliable, and scales well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". Cisco MDS Series is most compared with Dell Connectrix, HPE SN6000, IBM SAN384B, Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell PowerVault, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, VMware vSAN and Dell XtremIO.

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