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    Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure solution offers flexible configurations to address any specific business needs. Users can see and control an entire hyperconverged estate through a single dashboard with Cisco Intersight.N/A

    HPE SimpliVity

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.N/A
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    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with NutanixHPE SimpliVity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with NutanixHPE SimpliVity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Great solution that provides latest of Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Intersight and Nutanix software integration.
    Effective for VMware Stack to build VMs with vCenter and moving VMs live using vMotion.
    Equally effective with Kubernetics and KLS work load
    Easy to add more capacity
    Power footprint could be a limitation for advance AI and ML workloads.
    Very happy with solution
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    I only know what I know...which is my IT world. Having two datacenters that were physical servers attached to a SAN that "attempted" to replicate and then migrating. For a SMB small IT shop that happens to have two datacenters already in place...this has been ideal. I can have a generalist maintain the system and we have a private cloud for DR with hardly any effort...the biggest gain by far!
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Single pane of glass
    • easy to provision
    • easy to expand capacity
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Deduplication and Compression - SimpliVity keeps the space consumption to a minimum. We currently have 60 servers running virtually and we still have room to grow. This really helps with the backups as we can have longer retention.
    • Backups - Ability to keep backups for longer and to create multiple backup policies for a VM is a breeze. You can have a backup policy for each datastore as well as a separate backup policy for the same VM.
    • Creating Datastores is very easy. No more messing around with LUNS and iSCSI. Just go to the SimpliVity tab and select create datastore and it's done. You can also increase the datastore on the fly as well as have a datastore bigger than 2TB.
    • File level recovery is included as well. The whole backup process in SimpliVity can help you do away with other software.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The integration with Intersight can have more features
    • There could be more Hybrid storage option supporting both HDD and SSD
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • UI can be less than intuitive at times
    • reporting on the actual amount of space utilised can be misleading
    • Upgrading to additional storage if not specc'd correctly can be very expensive.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    It is good but we are European, so and 8 is really good a 9 or a 10 is unachievable...
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    It sits nicely ontop of VMWare and is easy enough to use. Some improvements to the UI could be done, such as placing buttons where it is expected to have them not in unusual places, so you have to hunt for them. The backup and restore is intuitive and makes things super easy if you need to do a quick rollback. Space savings on multiple VMs and backups means we are backing up more than we need which gives us confidence in what we do. Updating the system is also fairly easy and their support has always been fantastic. They will contact us if they detect any issues, usually before we notice them!
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Support is very good. With proactive support, you are supported by an engineer in North America who answers the phone and immediately begins assisting with your issue. The folks I have dealt with in the last several years have been very skilled and it is rare to have a ticket open for more than a day or two. Issues affecting production are dealt with appropriately and are escalated within the support organization.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    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.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We have decided to sign with Nutanix. We feel they are improving technology and are just a better software now.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Improve operational efficiency
    • Scalability and flexibility
    • High availability and business continuity
    • Enhanced performance for Virtualization
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • HPE SimpliVity provided us with the ability to replace our existing infrastructure with a solution that provided better backup and recovery, and an off-site DR solution, at a lower price point than other solutions.
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