Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix

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What is Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix?

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.

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Mudit Kumar View profile

Technical Director in Engineering at Intel Corp (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix is a fully validated solution that we use to create a hyperscale solution. This solution is fully integrated and validated solution that combines Cisco's UCS (Unified Computing System) servers and network infrastructure with Nutanix's industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software.

We use this for various departments and group to be able to use for their dynamic work loads.

Pros

Its hyper converged
one hardware platform that packs compute, network and storage
very effective for virtualization and kubernetics work loads
easy to expand with demand

Cons

solution with two different companies - support could improve
Cisco provide hardware like rack servers and blades, while Nutanix has the software
Faster solution would be include latest GPUs and DPUs

Return on Investment

Compact solution that is easy to build and deploy
Hyper converged solution in a box. All pieces are together
ROI is very high and we are able to meet and exceed business objectives for compute.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware vSAN

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

Verified User

Advisor in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for on-prem workloads. It addresses the scalability issues easily.

Pros

Single pane of glass
easy to provision
easy to expand capacity

Cons

workload migration from VMware

Return on Investment

Increased our turn around time to provision workloads

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware vSAN

Other Software Used

Omnissa Horizon

Paul Shah

Technical Designer in Information Technology at BT (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mainly as a on prem or colo setup combined with either AHV or VMware hypervisors (customers like the AHV alternative)

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

Cons

Multi site with DR and BC scenarios
Moving into AI and or specialized workloads (but this is coming soon already)

Return on Investment

This is difficult to see yet, but the expectation is that the hypervisor licensing can be better (cost effective) with AHV
The other advantage is the ease of migration (and expected cost)

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS X-Series

Other Software Used

VMware Cloud Director, OpenStack, Apache CloudStack

Ganesh Doddi

Infrastructure Designer in Information Technology at Bupa (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We hav used Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix for our remote sites and also to host VDI workloads. Infact we have used with both AHV and VMware to host these workloads.

Pros

Deployment from Intersight
Easy management

Cons

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

Return on Investment

Improve operational efficiency
Scalability and flexibility
High availability and business continuity
Enhanced performance for Virtualization

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Intersight

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Employee in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a lot of workloads that are latency sensitive and can run only onPremise. We were able to migrate these to Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix.

Pros

Easy to scale out
Provides high availability via multiple nodes
Storage performance at par with traditional NAS and SAN with all SSDs

Cons

The integration with Intersight can have more features
There could be more Hybrid storage option supporting both HDD and SSD

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

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dell PowerEdge and HPE Alletra

Other Software Used

Azure VMware Solution

HPE SimpliVity

VMware vSAN

Dell VxRail

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