Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued) vs. HPE SimpliVity

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

SimpliVity Omnicube is well suited in any environment. Especially if you are not currently using any VMware or Hyper-V products. It is a great gateway into the virtualization of your data center. For environments where VMware is currently being used, SimpliVity will be a great addition. Less cabling is required. Better performance is guaranteed. Two boxes are required as they work as a high availability pair. As the years go by you can simply just add a box or two to grow your environment. You can also get them configured with NVidia Grid cards to bring graphical performance to the VDI environment.

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

• HPE SimpliVity has built in incremental backups, and the restores are incredibly fast. I have seen 2TB VMs restored in 20 seconds.
• HPE SimpliVity has also made DR/BC a possibility. We have purchased and off-site DR box at a fraction of what tradition DR would cost.

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

• Upgrades are better than they used to be, but still complex.
• Make existing RapidDR product integral, versus a separate licensed component.

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

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!

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

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.

Incentivized

Fast, powerful, flexible.

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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..

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There were not many others > 4 years ago that stacked up. Nutanix at the time just was too pricey compared to what HPE SimpliVity offered.

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

• We have been able to go from spending 53L per annum on backups to 23K with the HPE SimpliVity Solution
• When not needing Servers, Storage, and networking and combining it all into the one we have saved a considerable amount of space and money.
• The DR and backup confidence we have has meant we have been able to reduce risk and meet our cyber objectives and RPO / RTO times.

Incentivized