Azure Stack HCI vs. Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)

It will be effective for an organization that is planning to deploy the application on the cloud and as well as on-premise. Organizations planning to work on hybrid-based can go for it blindly If looking for security it's an ultimate solution, being it is hybrid-based security is well enhanced.

Incentivized

Smaller sites that would benefit from a cluster of 2-5 nodes. Not saying that it can't scale above that, but I find HyperFlex a great solution for those sites. A simple 3-node edge cluster can provide a huge amount of resources and redundancy. It's also really easy to scale the environment to meet growth requirements.

Incentivized

• Azure Stack HCI operating system
• Windows Admin Center
• Hyper-V-based compute resources

Incentivized

• Cisco HyperFlex supports end-to-end intelligent automation
• Documentation of the deployment process is simple and easy to understand for new users.
• Will be able to automate the deployment process
• Will be able to provide the support to business faster as it is based on the "Hyperconverged Infrastructure" principle

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• Interruptions are there when the connection is low.
• Improvement needed on Integration feature.
• A lot of issues were faced while implementing.
• Documentation should be clear and straightforward.
• Improvement needed on Documentation.

Incentivized

• Too much integration with Cisco UCS fabric interconnects is required, which makes the product most useful for customers who already have Cisco UCS. Options without fabric interconnects are limited.
• Hyper-V integration is way behind (but to be fair I think that's true for most vendors in this space).

Incentivized

We are doing it in the current moment. The platform expansion will be twofold.

Incentivized

Everything is fine if you work as a user of the system. Difficulties in fine tuning the system.

Incentivized

I never contacted Cisco support for any problem. I cannot skip this question. It provides good hardware for my organization to using this product. All the updates will be made promptly. Anything happen we just need to open a ticket to the helpdesk team. We can get new info from a team in Malaysia.

Incentivized

Fast, powerful, flexible.

Incentivized

We can deploy the application into windows and Linux virtual machines in the datacentre, Azure service. It provides the latest security, performance, and hybrid capabilities, which now include Azure Arc enablement and new management scenarios through the Azure portal. GPU enablement and maximizing performance of we can go virtual desktop infrastructure.

Incentivized

VMware vSAN is more elastic and easy to sell as you can have more flexibility with the hardware and can use or just upgrade hardware already deployment in the client infrastructure and additionally its have no dependencies about the DNS/NTP, what is important..

Incentivized

• The upside is the integration feature.
• Pricing is a little higher.
• When compared with another platform, Azure Stack HCI is performing/ functioning brilliantly.

Incentivized

• HX made positive impact on our overall business objective and helped in reducing operational and capital expenditures almost by 60%
• We used to have huge footprint of FC SAN storage and highly skilled SME's to manage the FC SAN environments. HX helped in getting rid of costly SAN investments and we could move the skilled SMEs on higher work stack. With HX, we are able to effectively manage day to day operations with less skilled resources.
• We also benefitted largely from the single OEM support (Cisco end to end for HX, network fabric and hypervisor). In earlier case, we used to log service requests to SAN vendor, Hypervisor vendor and network fabric vendor separately. In case of inter-related issues between the vendors, our business used to suffer. These all challenges are removed by HX adoption. This is helping us support the business with maximum uptime ever. Our service SLA's are also improved by 70%

Incentivized