Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix vs. Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)

Well suited for on-prem virtual workloads

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

• Private cloud in the 500-2500 VM range
• K8S on top of these
• Traditional workloads on these as well
• Flexibility and scalability to start reasonably small and scale up quite big

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

Incentivized

• Intersight deployments can be bit tricky and room for improvements
• Service profile type of deployments

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

Simplified Management and Operations:

Cisco Intersight and Nutanix Prism Central work together to provide a single pane of glass for managing both the physical infrastructure and the hyperconverged environment.

This reduces complexity and the need for specialized IT skills.

Automated Deployment: Zero-touch deployments are a key feature, especially for remote and edge environments.

Cisco Intersight policies allow for automated bare-metal firmware and OS installation, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors.

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

It is much better , faster and created for high availability work loads that are dynamic to deploy and grow based on need and business demand.

We have use vSAN deployed prior to this new solution, and we prefer Cisco solution by a large margin to accommodate our growing requirements.

We are always watching other products and keeping ahead of the technology.

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

• We had a positive ROI as the bundle pricing of HW+SW was at par or slightly lesser than what we were already incurring with our legacy solution

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