TrustRadius Insights for Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Efficient Deployment Process: Users have praised the platform for its quick server deployment, stating that it takes less than 30 minutes to build a server to support their business application.
Ease of Use and Scalability: Reviewers found the platform easy to install, manage, and expand, emphasizing its user-friendly interface and scalability options.
Excellent Storage Capacity: Many users appreciated the platform's excellent storage capacity, which contributes to cost reduction in companies and makes implementation very straightforward.
Seamless Maintenance Processes: Users highlighted that updates and repairs could be done without disruption, showcasing the platform's seamless maintenance processes.
Integration with Cisco Ecosystem: The platform was described as efficient, fast, and integrated well with other Cisco products in the ecosystem.
User-Friendly Interface for End-Users: Users noted that the platform is easy to understand for end-users in terms of technology understanding and activities on both Day-0 and Day-1.
Efficient Snapshots in VMware: Praise was given for efficient snapshots in VMware provided by the platform, enhancing data management capabilities.
Reliable Storage Capabilities: The platform was commended for providing reliable storage solutions that meet user expectations.
good integration with the rest of the Cisco ecosystem
Cons
there is the problem with starting cluster where there are not outside DNS and NTP services so we need to workaround this with additional storage or hosting it on the local storage.. many clusters has internal DNS/NTP services not available from outside and they need to be hosted on the HX
there is not RBAC or user mgmt on the CVMs so it is difficult to not add full permission for the people responsible for just shutdown and power on the cluster
native snapshots support with ibm backup products
running from not the only last snapshot in all use cases
Likelihood to Recommend
mainlny HX + IBM FlashSystem (viia FC where there are NTP and DNS and some VMs with huge amount of not used frequently data) where we host VMs with traditional applications and control plane for Kubernetes/OpenShift.
The end customer decides to migrate from Convergence technologies to Hyperconvergence solutions, in order to overcome problems like storage and computer resources because many times these imply purchasing new devices and appliances that maybe will fill physical space on DC, With Cisco HyperFlex they solve this problem just increasing resources as they need and growth within their Virtual infrastructure.
Pros
VM Snapshots
Manage memory resources
Excellent Network segmentation
Easy to growth resources
Cons
More documentation and support for upgrades
Integration with third party vendors
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for medium to great scale Virtual infrastructure with a plan for growth and expansion.
VU
Verified User
Technician in Engineering (Telecommunications company, 11-50 employees)
We used HyperFlex to replace our separate server and storage environments. We are moving from Cisco UCS and Fiber Channel storage to a truly hyper-converged solution that will host thousands of virtualized machines for our customers. This is a Virtualised Server Infrastructure based upon VMWare ESXi for apx 6000 end users.
Pros
Ease of installation
Quality of product
Ease of operation
Cons
It can be overwhelming. There's a lot going on with compute storage network and hypervisor combined.
Some minor repeating warning messages when performing maintenance tasks.
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for both private and hybrid cloud environments. Can support both general virtualized workloads and specific workloads (including SAP HANA). Strong hyperconverged offering which solves a lot of issues you have with other solutions by providing a complete solution including network and bespoke hypervisor images.