Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix vs. Red Hat OpenShift

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix
Score 7.4 out of 10
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The 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
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with NutanixRed Hat OpenShift
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with NutanixRed Hat OpenShift
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix
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Ratings
Red Hat OpenShift
8.2
Ratings
3% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
User Ratings
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with NutanixRed Hat OpenShift
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
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9.3
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.8
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Usability
7.6
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7.6
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Availability
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5.5
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Performance
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8.7
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Support Rating
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5.3
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In-Person Training
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7.0
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Implementation Rating
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8.6
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Vendor post-sale
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8.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with NutanixRed Hat OpenShift
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for on-prem virtual workloads
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Red Hat OpenShift, despite its complexity and overhead, remains the most complete and enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform available. It excels in research projects like ours, where we need robust CI/CD, GPU scheduling, and tight integration with tools like Jupyter, OpenDataHub, and Quiskit. Its security, scalability, and operator ecosystem make it ideal for experimental and production-grade AI workloads. However, for simpler general hosting tasks—such as serving static websites or lightweight backend services—we find traditional VMs, Docker, or LXD more practical and resource-efficient. Red Hat OpenShift shines in complex, container-native workflows, but can be overkill for basic infrastructure needs.
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Pros
  • 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
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  • One thing is the way how it works with the GitHubs model on an enterprise business, how the hub and spoke topology works. Hub cluster topology works the way how there is a governance model to enforce policies. The R back models, the Red Hat OpenShift virtualization that supports the cube board and developer workspace is one big feature within. So yes, these are all some features I would call out.
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Cons
  • Intersight deployments can be bit tricky and room for improvements
  • Service profile type of deployments
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  • So I don't know that this is a specific disadvantage for Red Hat OpenShift. It's a challenge for anything that Kubernetes face is. There's an extremely large learning curve associated with it and once you get to the point where you're comfortable with it, it's really not bad. But beating that learning curve is a challenge. I've done a couple presentations on our implementation of Red Hat OpenShift at various conferences and one of the slides I always have in there is a tweet from years ago that said, "I tried to teach somebody Kubernetes once. Now neither of us knows what it is."
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Likelihood to Renew
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This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications
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Usability
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.
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The virtualization part takes some getting used to it you are coming from a more traditional hypervisor. Customization options are not intuitive to these users. The process should be more clear. Perhaps a guide to Openshift Virtualization for users of RHV, VMware, etc. would ease this transition into the new platform
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Reliability and Availability
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Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
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Performance
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Overall, this platform is beneficial. The only downsides we have encountered have been with pods that occasionally hang. This results in resources being dedicated to dead or zombie pods. Over time, these wasted resources occasionally cause us issues, and we have had difficulty monitoring these pods. However, this issue does not overshadow the benefits we get from Openshift.
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Support Rating
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Every time we need to get support all the Red Hat team move forward looking to solve the problem. Sometimes this was not easy and requires the scalation to product team, and we always get a response. Most of the minor issues were solved with the information from access.redhat.com
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In-Person Training
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I was not involved in the in person training, so i
can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
seamlessly without any issue.
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Online Training
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We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
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Implementation Rating
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The learning curve is quite high but worth it.
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Alternatives Considered
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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We utilized the Thycotic Secret Service to manage all our application secrets, resulting in seamless integration with our applications. We developed all the applications using Red Hat Fuse (currently migrated to Quarkus). We used the built-in Kali Linux support of OpenShift to manage and configure the services and API. Additionally, the Red Hat Developer Studio facilitates faster development.
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Scalability
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This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
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Return on Investment
  • 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
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  • It has allowed us to see where we need to be in the container world. I'm going to call it a net neutral impact, not negative or positive. It has given us a sense of what we are ready for and what we're not ready for. You know where you stand.
  • You don't know what you don't know, so it helps us know what we want to know.
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